INSPIRASUNS

When I was growing up one of my favorite “stuffed animals” was my bean bag frog. My mom bought it for me when we were leaving one of our favorite restaurants one evening. We didn’t have a lot growing up, so getting a treat like this was very special.

I have two older brothers, and as you can imagine it wasn’t uncommon for them to play jokes on me, or use me to run through the latest wrestling move they’d learned during school practice, or to just be older brothers and pick on me 🙂 . Well, one afternoon we had gotten home from school, and mom was still at work. I don’t recall why, but my brothers had taken my bean bag frog and were tossing it against the front of the couch. It bounced back at them, they laughed and continued this little game. I of course was mortified, yelling at them to stop, “you’re going to break him”, I said. If you have older siblings, you pretty much know that didn’t help. Yes they kept going, my frog bounced repeatedly, and sure enough on one toss, boom, his back side seam split and the little beans went everywhere 😦 . My brother’s eyes got big realizing what had happened as I of course ran to call mom in tears.

When mom got home, after giving my brother’s a stern talking to, she gently sewed up my little frog, Needless to say, I made sure to put him in a special place and they kept their paws off my treasured frog in the future.

Things break in this life, they get worn out, they get banged up, but they can be mended, restored, and repaired. My little frog is a great example. I realize it’s a very simple example but you get the point.

As you have your cup of coffee this morning and get ready for work or school I encourage you to consider the things in your life that may need restoration. Have a conversation with Father and ask him to light the path along the way as you understand what that mending looks like.

By the way, I still have a little bean bag frog to this day. He’s not the same one I had as a kid, but he sits proudly in my office 🙂

Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.