Heaven and Earth: A little cup of love.

My sistah told me a really touching story yesterday. I might not have every small detail correct, but you'll get the gist of it.

She is a mentor in our MOPS group at church (Mothers of Preschool Children). She said they had a christmas tea in December and everyone brought a pretty tea cup. They used it for the tea and then afterward you washed your cup and filled it with little goodies and tied it up with a bible verse to give as a gift to someone.

Earlier this week one woman shared the story of what happened with her cup. She knew who she wanted to give hers to the day they had the tea. A cousin of hers had recently lost her husband and was having a hard time. She said he was the sweetest man. The type that was always doing thoughtful little things for her. Like taking note when she would comment on something in a store and then buy it later for a gift.

Her cousin lived out of state and was going to be in town for a day or two at a relatives house, but if I remember correctly I think they were going to miss each other. So the woman left the cup on the bed of the room she would be staying in.

After her cousin found the cup she called her up crying. She said once when her and her husband were on vacation she had commented on a pretty coffee cup while out shopping. He had gone back and gotten it for her and later gave it to her as a gift. But along the way the cup had been broken and discarded.

But the cup with the verse she left on the bed was that exact same cup! She said she treasured it and was afraid she wouldn't be able to get it all the way home in one piece.

How cool is that? Of all the coffee cups in the world.

To me that is a great example of how God loves us and knows and cares for the biggest and the littlest details of our lives. And knows how to comfort us better than any other.