THIS IS A STORY I’VE THOUGHT ABOUT WRITING FOR A LONG TIME…  And it is an impressive one! Ruby was a friend of my mom’s. I knew her when I was a little child. Being sixty-eight and a half right now, it is so good for me to remember her!

You see, Ruby didn’t really talk to me all that much. She didn’t get very involved with my brothers and me, she was my mom’s friend / my mom’s age. But; I liked her! Yes, I liked Ruby very much. I’ll never forget her big curls. Her hair was short, she was lean. I know she had three sons (whom I had never met.) I also knew she was married and again, I never met her husband.

How can it be that I can have such a good memory of Ruby? She didn’t even know, probably, that I liked her greatly!

What’s so wonderful about this life experience is this: I now know why I liked her so much. There was something very special in her soul, which I don’t know about, that God revealed to my little girl soul…

Selah.

I’m sure she’s passed on long ago – or she’d be about ninety-eight. (Though, not impossible at all that she’s still here on Earth.) My mother and Ruby lost touch (probably when we moved to South Saint Paul from Saint Paul.) I do remember we went through a McDonald’s drive-in and Ruby was working there. I loved seeing her! She was probably about fifty at that time…

When I think of Ruby now, being a Christian, I do hope she loves God and is with Him. I’m believing she is definitely because she was so very, very special to me.

The main point of this honorable writing of Ruby is this: people touch other’s life in good ways; and unfortunately, evil ways. And: we may never know until Heaven how we’ve helped others….  Sometimes even strangers lives can literally be saved by a person smile! I’ve heard of that! Have you?

Beloved, you may never know how your soul and spirit connect love to others…  Perhaps we should all thank God daily not only for the love we have for people; but in addition to this, thank Him for the anoint He has given us!

Give God the glory, love yourself and others: the blessings you have are available to all. Help them take them!

Selah!

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:

John 17:20-26     Jesus Prays for All Believers

 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,  that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.  I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”