{"id":2286,"date":"2018-08-06T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2018-08-06T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:59:04","slug":"everything-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=2286","title":{"rendered":"Everything Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything in Order!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manuscripts everywhere–three hundred and sixty-five of them–on the table, on every chair, and even, if I remember correctly, on the floor! My mother was the personification of order, so why, I wondered had she allowed these papers to remain all over our tiny living-room for hours if not for several days? Even the best of memories fade somewhat after sixty-five years or more, so some of the details of that morning may not be absolutely correctly relayed. But I can remember, vividly, asking my parents the question: \u201cWhy aren\u2019t you putting away these papers? They\u2019ve stayed there for ages.\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what answer I was expecting, certainly not the one I received. \u201cWe\u2019ve left them there,\u201d my parents replied, \u201cbecause we\u2019re praying over them.\u201d<\/p>\n

That answer puzzled me at first. Not that I wasn\u2019t used to our family praying over everything\u2014my problems at school with bullies, my father\u2019s Sunday sermons, church conflicts, financial needs\u2014everything and anything was brought to God. But manuscripts? I didn\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese manuscripts,\u201d they continued, \u201care readings for every day of the year, so there are 365 of them. They are on different subjects\u2014prayer, the importance of the Bible, suffering, missionaries, and many more. We are asking God to help us arrange them so that, in the future, those who read them will find something special to help them on that particular day.\u201d<\/p>\n

That made sense and I was satisfied. Order does count. How you arrange things was important, at least to our family it was.<\/p>\n

I must have been around eight or nine at the time and I forgot all about the incident for a long while. The manuscripts were eventually put into book form and The Christian\u2019s Daily Challenge <\/em>came into being. Then, some years later, my parents began to receive letters from around the globe, telling not just that people had been blessed through reading the book but that, when they had been facing some crisis in their lives, the reading for that particular day had seemed written just for them. When I heard this, something clicked! I saw myself as a perplexed eight-year-old, staring at the 365 manuscripts that had invaded the privacy of our home.<\/p>\n

Something still clicks, so much so that I am going to go right now to our website and see what the reading is for today. It is entitled \u201cThe Microscope of Love. \u201cDon\u2019t wait for tomorrow\u201d; advises Frances Ridley Havergal.\u00a0 Take this day, the morning hours past, the evening ones to come, and apply this microscope, and see if you don\u2019t find you are walking in the midst of miracles of love, and that all things are for your sakes.\u201d Now that advice, I\u2019m pretty sure, is relevant to every one of us! Check out these daily readings on our site. I think you\u2019ll find it worth your while!<\/p>\n

Trudy Harvey Tait<\/p>\n

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