Ann?" He calls from the back door. "Can you can grab me The Word? On the stick?”
His voice finds me at the table with books and children and pencils.
From the window, I can see the tractor idling in the lane, the cap of it’s muffler bobbing. He's headed to the field.
“You left it in your cubby drawer?” I leave Kai to wrestle out the rest of his spelling, find the little BibleStick, the headphones, tucked in the drawer amongst his papers.
“You can hear it in the tractor okay?”
He’s leaning in the mudroom door and I lay God’s truth into his hand, an audio Bible the size of a stick of gum.
“Clear as a bell.” He winks. “I’ll just get it set up before we get rolling... and I’ll listen all through the night.”
“I listened through the whole of the Gospels yesterday.” He checks the battery. "We're good to go!"
Thumbs up and he's out the door.
I lean up against the door, watch him go.
There are things worth taking to the field. There is a Friend who keeps the night hours.
There are Words and they are very God's and we hunger after them more than any food harvested from the fields.
And I turn back to the table, thinking of all those fields ripe for the harvest.
Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. :: Jn. 4:35
"Faith comes from hearing the message." :: Ro.10:17
Thinking about troops serving in fields far from home this holiday season?
Prayerfully consider joining 'Faith Comes from Hearing' to give the gift of God's Word to troops serving in fields around the world.This includes a Military Bible MemoryStick
*pre-loaded with the entire New Testament,
*rugged enough for tough weather conditions
*for use in low-light situations,
*and sized to easily fit into uniform pockets,
plus an MP3 disc of the entire New Testament along with response card for service members to have New Testaments and KIDZ Bibles sent to their families.
For deeply moving testimonies from troops who've been changed by the hearing of God's Word with the Bible MemoryStick, read here
'Faith Comes From Hearing is also sending the most fascinating piece of technology throughout Africa with the Proclaimer. Tremendous!
To consider the happy privilege sending a Proclaimer (with the entire audio New Testament and its own solar recharging battery) to any village where people can't read God's Word....
(And if you're considering a personal Bible Stick, each includes:
- 40 Day Plan: Listen just 28 minutes a day
- Simple, easy-to-use Audio New Testament
- Powered by one AAA battery)
Photo: the Word on the BibleStick going to the field here, military photo that brought tears via tumblr (HT: @To Think )
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