In God We Trust!
On my birthday celebration, one of my dearest friend invited me for a weekend in LA(Los Angeles). I was little bit nervous about it. Because my friend was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house.
Then after when we had a good time, He planned to go for a dinner out. We were about to enter an exclusive restaurant that evening, my friend was walking slightly ahead of me.
He stopped suddenly, looking down on the pavement for a long, silent moment.
I wondered if he was supposed to pass him. There was nothing on the ground except a single darkened penny that someone had dropped, and a few cigarette butts. Still silent, the man reached down and picked up the penny.
He held it up and smiled, then put it in his pocket as if he had found a great treasure. How absurd! What need did this man have for a single penny?
Why would he even take the time to stop and pick it up?
Throughout dinner, the entire scene nagged at me. Finally, I could stand it no longer. I causally mentioned that my sister once had a coin collection, and asked if the penny he had found had been of some value.
A smile crept across the man’s face as he reached into his pocket for the penny and held it out for me to see. I had seen many pennies before!
What was the point of this?
“Look at it.” He said. “Read what it says” I read the words “United States of America.”
“No, not that; read further.”
“One cent?” “No, keep reading.”
“In God we Trust?” “Yes!” “And?”
“And if I trust in God, the name of God is holy, even on a coin. Whenever I find a coin I see that inscription. It is written on every single United States coin, but we never seem to notice it! God drops a message right in front of me telling me to trust Him? Who am I to pass it by? When I see a coin, I pray, I stop to see if my trust IS in God at that moment. I pick the coin up as a response to God; that I do trust in Him. For a short time, at least, I cherish it as if it were gold. I think it is God’s way of starting a conversation with me. God is patient and pennies are plentiful!
When I was out shopping today, I found a penny on the sidewalk. I stopped and picked it up, and realized that I had been worrying and fretting in my mind about things I cannot change. I read the words, “In God We Trust,” and had to laugh. Yes, God, I get the message.
It seems that I have been finding an inordinate number of pennies in the last few months, but then, pennies are plentiful!
And God is patient...Amen!!
