The Right Place to Look

     In front of the home hosting an estate sale a long line snakes from the front door spilling out into the driveway, sometimes even down the sidewalk. The line has started an hour or so before the sale is scheduled to begin, and each person holds bags or boxes - something for carrying home the treasure they are sure to find. We recognize a few of the regulars - the woman who goes straight to the pantry and carries off all the spices and cans she finds; a man that always hunts old record albums with specific titles in mind. As the doors open you'll hear others asking directions from the sale staff for where a specific item might be found.  Most are more than happy to point you in the right direction.
     Always, I am headed for the jewelry. The sparkle draws me in; a rhinestone bracelet here, some clip on earrings there, before you know it the basket I carry is full, and I make my way to the cashier.

   
     The anticipation of what treasures lurk inside a dusty old house, the beauty of the things I find there have me hooked, and I keep going back to estate sales every week. And it makes me think of something else that draws me back time and again...

     To some the Bible is just a dusty old book, but I've found that as I read it there is beauty in the words found there. Beauty, and peace, hope, wisdom for my life...real treasure that I've never found at any sale.

     Sometimes, when I finally get to the front of the estate sale line, and ask the staff where the jewelry can be found, I'm told there isn't any that day. But when I read God's words to us - the Bible, there has always been a gem, something that sparkled and brought wonder to my day!

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
Matthew 7:7-8