Dallas County Living Well Magazine Summer 2014 | Page 41

I always tell people, at the time I
didn’t really understand what God
meant when He said, “I will make you
fruitful.” But, fruit sounded better
than dead. So the next morning I asked
a co-worker if they knew of a church
where I could go that weekend. She
told me about a Bible Church in the
area.
On the way home from work that day
I heard another voice. This one said,
“Why would the God of all the universe come and speak to someone as
lowly and messed up as you?” In that
moment I began to question. Maybe I
ate tacos too late the night before. Of
course it wasn’t God. I agreed with the
voice, if there was a God, why would
He want to have anything to do with
me?
I pulled into my driveway, jumped
out of my car and grabbed the mail.
In a small white envelope addressed
to me, with no return, was a clipping
of a Helen Steiner Rice poem. It read:
Life is a garden, good friends are
the flowers. And times spent together life’s happiest hours. And
friendship, life flowers, blooms
ever more fair, when carefully
tended by dear friends who care.
Then set apart in parenthesis in the
center of the poem I read these words:
“And if you trust your dreaming, your
faith will make it true...And if you listen with your heart, He’ll come and
talk to you...
I’m not gonna lie, I think in that moment I used an explicative and flung the
poem along with the white envelope before reading the last stanza which said:
If my ‘borrowed words of truth’
in some way touch your heart,
then I am deeply thankful to
have had a little part in sharing
these God given lines, and I hope
you’ll share the