Everything I Ever Needed in Life I Found in My Purse

I found a five dollar bill in a sneaky secret pocket last week. Even better, I found a candy bar. Now that was interesting. It was scrunched into about a bajillion bits - almost liquefied - but it was still inside the wrapper.

I have to admit there are some encounters that aren't exactly positive purse experiences. The other day, for example, I was making a return and I had to do an emergency receipt search at the customer service counter. My purse stuff started piling up. I pulled out five loose Lifesavers, an old Valentine, sunscreen, one mitten, six kid-mealtoys (including a mini-tractor with only one wheel), three keys of unknown lock origin, and a dead cricket. But no receipt. There were 12 tissues (none I would actually use), last year's Christmas list, a ticket stub to the Jr. High spring concert, the backs from fouradhesive name tags, and a partridge in a pear tree (kidding about the partridge).

I scraped up a Denny's coupon that expired in 1997 and a plastic Easter egg. The egg rattled, but I was afraid to open it. Then there were 2 gummy-worms stuck in a hairbrush. I hate to admit it, but there was also about enough purse fuzz in there to stuff asofa pillow. Inside the purse fuzz, something green and squishy caught my eye - and it frightened me. I gained courage by tossing the dead cricket and drinking the candybar.

Then I got to the heart of my purse. I found my New Testament. It had all my family pictures tucked inside. That's when I realized that everything important in life could be found in my purse. Okay, I didn't exactly find Jesus in my purse, but his Word was there. Granted, it smelled like Juicy Fruit, but it was a great reminder that there's really no place I can go where I won't find the Lord's presence. Not one fuzz-covered place!

There's no place I can go without my Heavenly Father's knowledge. Not the heavens, not the depths, not the far side of the sea. I could climb all the way inside my purse, and he would still find me there. There's nothing that he doesn't know about me. He knows the contents of my purse and the contents of my heart. And he still loves me.

That's reason to celebrate, even though I never found the receipt. Maybe the cricket ate it. For the record, I think the green thing used to be a jelly bean. I guess we'll never know. One of the kids ate it.

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