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It doesn't take much for me to realize how very fortunate I am. I
sit here at my computer each day and write. That in itself is a
wonderful thing, me, my computer and 4700+ "friends I've never met."

But in this effort to create something from nothing I have gained a
wonderful perspective of what I call "the Big Plan."

I can remember as a child always having a big plan. You know, a way
to make tons of money by selling lemonade, then buying a new bike.
Of course there was the plan to form a club "as big as the whole
wide world" and build a clubhouse to hold them all. That was before
the creation of the biggest snowman in the whole wide world.

I finally gave up on big plans.

As an adult I called them dreams.

I am happy to say that along the way some of those dreams became
reality.

Today dreams still make my life worth living.

I have finally come to realize that big plans are still real, too.

There is indeed a system that works for you and I if only we learn
to recognize it.

Off to my left is a window in my office that permits me to daydream
whenever I need to search for a story or a word I must have. I can
turn my chair, prop my feet up and watch the big plan unfold.

As I am writing this I can see two rabbits, no make that three, a
few finches, five sparrows and a very nervous blue jay all focused
on the bird feeder.

Here's the big plan.

I work writing stories and speaking about life. From that income I
buy birdseed. Each and every day, without fail, I fill the three
feeders. Two that permits the bigger birds to eat and one that is
enclosed in a cage-like structure to allow only the tiny birds
access.

The big birds aggressively pick through the seed to find the
sunflowers seeds, cracked corn, etc. that make up their diet. The
smaller birds pick through the seed to find their special food, like
thistle. Both groups scatter the seed as they eat and it drops to
the ground.

The rabbits, morning doves, some cardinals, squirrels and yes, deer
feed off of the seed that has dropped there.

Not one single seed goes to waste.

The great plan?

Everything we need comes from the earth.

Everything.

God, in whatever form or name your faith accepts, created the earth.

We come to God for all that we need. All are provided for.

God gives me a gift to write, to speak and uses me to work to buy
the seed, to fill the feeders, so that the birds that feed can drop
the seed for the rabbits, squirrels, and ground feeding birds.

I love it!

If today you feel lacking anything, physically, spiritually,
emotionally, ask God what it is you need and then expect it.

But...there's always a "but." God provides food for the tiniest
bird. He doesn't throw it in the nest. He created it to fly, to go
get what it needs.

Imagine then, all that he created you to accomplish! You are a part
of the "Big Plan."

But He's not going to throw it in your nest.

You must learn to fly!

That, my dear friend, is "The Big Plan!"


Bob Perks
Bob@BobPerks.com

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PRAYER
"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit and guide me into your way of truth. Free me from erroneous and false ways and lead me in the knowledge of your ways and your will for my life. May there be nothing in my life that is not under your lordship."

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