SPIRITUAL MUSINGS: From a Chinese Take Out

My husband and I like Chinese food. We’ve found a little place that suits us just fine because it’s close to home, the servings are generous, and the price is extremely reasonable. The place we go to is on 40 highway in a former Dairy Queen now converted to a Chinese take out. The lady who gets our order at the window, dishes it up, and takes our money recognizes us since we’ve been there so often. She knows not to give us any soy sauce nor any sweet and sour sauce, but she always slips an extra fortune cookie in our bag. Fortune cookies usually have mundane little sayings, but it’s a ritual for us to open the cookie, read the saying silently and exchange the paper to see what the other person got as their fortune. The last time we went, though, my fortune cookie saying was different. It read, “God looks after you especially.” Wow! What a wonderful thought! God—the Almighty—Creator of Heaven and Earth—looks after me, but it doesn’t stop there; She looks after me especially! That made me feel so secure. No matter what the circumstances, God is watching over me. I knew that, but it was nice to be reminded, even if it was from a fortune cookie at our local Chinese take out.

Carol