Lunch Money

On my kitchen window sets a row of five quarters with a nickle on top of each quarter. It's my special reminder of my mother and My God. (My mother went home to be with The Lord thirteen years ago yesterday. - Today is September 14, 2009.) Every week when I went to E. E. Bass Junior High School in Mississippi my mother would set up five stacks of a quarter and a nickle. The cafeteria lunch was thirty cents each day.

My mother planned for that provision ahead of time and the lunch money was always there for me to take from the window sill each day as I left for school. The stacks of thirty cents on my window sill remind me of how my mother loved me and always prepared for and provided my needs right down to the smallest detail. The money also reminds me of God's continuous care for His own children. Isaiah 49:15 says, " Can a woman forget her nursing child?" God says some MAY forget but then He reminds us of His unrelenting love and care by saying that we are [engraved] in the palms of His hands. (Isa 49:16)

God will care for each of His own and has prepared ahead of time for that care even better than a mother could or would. When I see the quarters on my window sill I like to remember that first God prepared for my needs by providing salvation through His Son and now He continually provides for me each day according to what I need.

When I lived at home with my parents I always felt very safe. Now my confidence of safety for each day and for eternity rests in the presence and the promises of my God. He walks each step with me and whatever I need He provides. "Great is His Faithfulness" I still miss my mother but My God will never leave me.