THE RUMMAGE SALE=THE TOUCH OF A MASTER'S HAND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE RUMMAGE SALE---THE TOUCH OF A MASTER’S HAND

 

 

 

 

 

Do you know

What a rummage sale is

 

It is

Something that they used to have

Maybe still do

After a person dies

 

You know the items:

        perhaps a woman’s wedding or prom dress

        or the tux or suit a man got married in

 

        maybe a lamp or an old desk

 

        or some personal items

        like books or jewelry

 

        some old furniture

 

        and over there in the corner sits an old piano

        with no one giving it much attention

 

People---men and women---are coming and going

Buying everything

While the piano continues to sit there unnoticed by everyone

Over there in the corner

 

A little while later

An elder gentleman comes in

Sits down at the piano

And begins to play

 

And beautiful music

Comes out of this old piano

 

People are clamoring about

And the bids keep getting higher---higher---yet higher

 

What changed its worth

Of course---it is

The touch of a master’s hand

 

We too

Are like the old piano

Trying to build a life

On all the wrong things:        greed and materialism

                                               sexual lust and perversions

                                               our addictions---drugs-alcohol-and pornography

                                               and whatever else in our life that we are putting above God

 

SO WHAT CHANGES US

 

Of course

It is the touch of God

THE TOUCH OF A MASTER’S HAND

 

The moment

We realize that we are a CHILD OF GOD

That God loves us

With an everlasting---never-ending

UNCHANGING kind of love

 

The moment we realize our worth

The ONLY worth that matters

Comes from God

 

“These have come

So that your faith

Of greater worth than gold

Which perishes even though refined by fire---

May be proved genuine

And may result

In praise, glory, and honor

When Jesus Christ is revealed”                                                          1 Peter1:7

 

“Instead---it should be that your inner self

The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit

Which is of great worth in God’s sight”                                                 1 Peter 3:4

 

Your worth

Your REAL worth

Can only be found in God

And found through

 

THE TOUCH OF A MASTER’S HAND

 

Robert P. Wallman

1-5-12

 

******************        inspired by a message by Father Leo Clifford---1922-2012

                                            MAY HE REST IN PEACE

 

 

 

Ps         MISC.        WITNESS        6-25-14

 

 

And 3-31-17 and 2-23-24-2021 and 12-22-2021