A Father's Heart

In the first week of July 2009, I was walking in a parking lot on my lunch break that I rarely walk in. I was walking in one direction back and forth, and did not stray from this path for the majority of my walk. As I was walking a thought popped through my mind that there was going to be a heart on the driveway, and it was God telling me that He loves me. I knew I had heard these words, but I really did not understand where they came from. I shrugged them off as a random thought, and did not think anything else about it. I continued to walk, and became irritated when a semi truck pulled into the lot, and parked right in the middle of my walking path. I re-routed myself to the other side, I guess I will share I exclaimed in my head. It did not take long for something on the ground to stop me in my tracks.



Here is a close up. I turned up the colors a little bit so it is easier to see:



It was at this moment, there will be a heart on the sidewalk, and it is me telling you that I love you rung through my ears. I had forgotten until that point that they were spoken maybe 45 min before I came across it. There are some that would call this a coincidence, but when is the last time that you heard something like I heard that had nothing to do with anything I was doing, and then see the very thing you heard? Unless someone decided to get cute with their blacktop job, there is no doubt in my mind this driveway became a canvas for my Father to show His love for me, in a physical way that my eyes could see. I did not take the picture the day that it happened. It had dawned on me a couple of weeks later that I should capture this moment so that I could always look on my Father's heart to me.

Thank you Daddy for always making yourself known to your children, and thank you for allowing me to have a heart that will accept your many miracles that are always there for the one that will believe. Thank you for eyes that see, and ears that hear. I pray that you will bless the one that is reading this, as well as everyone else that is ready with the gift of earsight. Please help me to remember that what I sometimes perceive as irritating, or as taking me off my beaten path, could just be You steering me away from my pre-set plans long enough, so that You can reveal Yourself to me.