The Extra Super Duper Dollop
First published June 8, 2009
When I was about five or six years old, I remember occasionally going out for ice cream after church. It seems that when my father had to work and my mother took my siblings and I to church, we’d get to have a single scoop of ice cream. My favorite was strawberry with big chunks of bright red fruit.
Sometimes as we sat eating our dessert I’d watch other customers order and receive their treats. When someone ordered a sundae, the shop owner would flamboyantly put an extra super duper dollop of whipped cream on top. His eyes would grow big as artfully swirled the snow-white topping and crowned the creation with a cherry. The receiver’s eyes where just as big as he anticipated the extra special added sweetness.
I thought it was a great wonderful thing to get an extra super duper dollop. And as I grew older I realized not only would I get extra super duper dollops, but they could take on different forms.
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When I was pregnant with my fifth child, I had cancer as well. After two surgeries in the spring, I resumed homeschooling and teaching math at a local university in the fall. When I went into early labor the course of events could have only been woven by God.
My sister Gail, who was a civil engineer fresh out of college and working at her first big job, took off of work and drove an hour to my house, snatched the final exams for my classes and drove up to Cal Poly to proctor them for me. Jeff stayed home to monitor my contractions, orchestrated the details of my sister’s arrival with the department chairman, and corresponded with the doctor.
My sitter/helper, Angie skipped her afternoon classes at PCC (Hope University) and watched the children. Gail brought the completed final exams then headed for the airport to pick up my mother. Jeff and I went to the hospital. Gail arrived at my house with Mom, took Angie to her place, and bought dinner for the kids. I gave birth to a healthy boy, and months later resumed radiation treatment.
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Yes, you know of those super duper dollops of blessings in your life. There are special events, special presents, special kind deeds, and special people who have added that extra sweetness on top of blessings. Or maybe you can be the extra super duper dollop of blessings to someone? Meditate on today’s verse. By word and deed, pray that today, you can be an extra special dollop of added sweetness.
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Ephesians 3:20-21
“Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works within us,
to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”
Copyright 2009 Karen E. Vaughn
When I was about five or six years old, I remember occasionally going out for ice cream after church. It seems that when my father had to work and my mother took my siblings and I to church, we’d get to have a single scoop of ice cream. My favorite was strawberry with big chunks of bright red fruit.
Sometimes as we sat eating our dessert I’d watch other customers order and receive their treats. When someone ordered a sundae, the shop owner would flamboyantly put an extra super duper dollop of whipped cream on top. His eyes would grow big as artfully swirled the snow-white topping and crowned the creation with a cherry. The receiver’s eyes where just as big as he anticipated the extra special added sweetness.
I thought it was a great wonderful thing to get an extra super duper dollop. And as I grew older I realized not only would I get extra super duper dollops, but they could take on different forms.
**** ****
When I was pregnant with my fifth child, I had cancer as well. After two surgeries in the spring, I resumed homeschooling and teaching math at a local university in the fall. When I went into early labor the course of events could have only been woven by God.
My sister Gail, who was a civil engineer fresh out of college and working at her first big job, took off of work and drove an hour to my house, snatched the final exams for my classes and drove up to Cal Poly to proctor them for me. Jeff stayed home to monitor my contractions, orchestrated the details of my sister’s arrival with the department chairman, and corresponded with the doctor.
My sitter/helper, Angie skipped her afternoon classes at PCC (Hope University) and watched the children. Gail brought the completed final exams then headed for the airport to pick up my mother. Jeff and I went to the hospital. Gail arrived at my house with Mom, took Angie to her place, and bought dinner for the kids. I gave birth to a healthy boy, and months later resumed radiation treatment.
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Yes, you know of those super duper dollops of blessings in your life. There are special events, special presents, special kind deeds, and special people who have added that extra sweetness on top of blessings. Or maybe you can be the extra super duper dollop of blessings to someone? Meditate on today’s verse. By word and deed, pray that today, you can be an extra special dollop of added sweetness.
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Ephesians 3:20-21
“Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works within us,
to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”
Copyright 2009 Karen E. Vaughn
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