The Candy Shelves

You are precious and honored in my sight, and... I love you.
Isaiah 43:4


She was maybe five or six. She was waiting for her mom there in the
drugstore, standing near the cash register with her eyes glued to the
candy shelves. For that little girl, paradise was just a few feet and
a few dimes away.

Different times, different things. When we are little we want a
bottle. Grade school we want to only be with our friends. Teenagers
want romance, and ... a car! Then we want a job, a home, a family. And
a fulfilling life. Happiness. Security in a changing world. Retirement
investments. Good health.

Throughout all our ages and stages we want a LOT of different things.
But God always wants the same thing. Us.

In the Bible, God tells us that He created us for fellowship with Him,
and He relentlessly pursues us and that relationship. We are restless
in our spirits until we are "with Him".

He won't give up, and He won't give in. He will continue to lovingly
gaze upon you as if you, yourself, are those candy shelves.

That is good news.


By Sally I Kennedy