when life seems bankrupt and you need a gold-digger

It's that documentary show I keep thinking about. Shipwrecked sites and exploring large bodies of water in a "Treasure Quest" with divers combing through blankets of blue like an awkward bird moving through air.

But business carries on above as {operating} boats go port to port with their goods while passing over these bottom dwellers.

And some days life bankrupts us and we sink.

I've watched the "Treasure" crew as they move stealthily from one wrecked site to another. Many are scattered on the ocean floor but it's only with fancy gadgets, investors, special equipment and crew are they able to treasure-quest at all. Skill and knowledge belonging to an elect. The hunting left to a few.

And us land-locked folks, we do the same, thinking only an elect few have access to wisdom or treasure. After we're sunk, we think it's our place to stay below water. We consider ourself just a bunch of pieces, shattered shells and we're a shipwreck in need of a gold-digger.

We carry on Kingdom business like a bottom dweller, thinking treasure hunters are only for them, that person, so-n-so, a skilled someone else.

But not me.

But you'd be wrong.

No matter how wrecked it seems, how far you've sunk, how bankrupt things are, there's an Investor that raises our Titanics. And He gives "you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel." Isaiah 45:3 

It's the One who calls you by name which strikes gold in a heart. When you know, really know He calls you by name and all else pales, is when you hit the mother lode.



With thanks {and Ann}, Today this is the only gift I'm counting: Christ, our greatest Treasure hunter who raises us from our wrecks









How could I forget our playdate with God
at Laura's place "The Wellspring"?




And it's Monday at L.L. Barkat's: