A MESSAGE BY PS REGGIE DABBS

This is a parallel to the prodigal son story, may it bless your heart today and may this be a story that you will share with many.

Molly was a young 4 year old girl, she grew up watching dvds and cds every christmas. She owned every possible Christmas dvd and vcd. She watched one every Christmas and realised one thing constant about them all: every family in the shows had a tradition whether it was singing christmas carols together, opening presents as a family, sitting down after dinner and playing chess. However, she realised that her family did not have one, and so one day, 2 weeks before Christmas she ran to her dad and asked him,"Dad, why doesn't our family have a tradition like those in the dvds?"

To that, her dad answered, "we've never had a family tradition, my dear!"

Molly thought for a moment and asked," Can we have one then?"

Her dad looked at her and said, "Okay, after dinner on Christmas eve we will do something as a family every year, ok? However i'll only tell you what it is on Christmas eve."
Molly waited and waited till Christmas eve and after dinner she went to her dad. He took her little hand and brought her to the living room, in front of all the guests and relatives, he went down on one knee and said to her, "Molly, ever since your mommy died, i've never had any one to dance with and it would be great if you could have this one dance with me every year."

Molly had her mother's smile, and eyes..even the little bounce in the way her mother walked.

So this family tradition went on for 14 years, and Molly finally turned 18. she met a boy and started dating. The day before Christmas, Molly asked her dad, "Can I please go to the christmas dance with him? Her dad however said, "What about our yearly tradition? You hardly even know this boy, I think it is not a good idea for you to do." Molly got angry and screamed at her father saying, "You don't love me." She went to her room, called the boy and told him what her dad said. The boy told her,"well, its okay, since your dad does not allow you to go to the dance, he does not love you, why don't you come with me? we'll leave tonight! i've got a brother who stays in Texas and we can both live with him."

That night, Molly took her savings and climbed out of the window into the boy's arms. They drove for a good 5 hours to get to texas.

However their romance did last long. Five days later, his brother told them both, "It's too crowded, I cannot have the both of you staying here. Either one of you have to leave." The boy went to Molly and told her, "My brother says only one of us can stay here, i do not think i love you anymore, i guess that means you have to leave."

Molly left broken. she had no money and she had given a part of her to that boy, which could never again be retracted. She had nowhere to go and went to a halfway house begging them to take her in. There, she met a friend called clarrise who told her that she could earn some quick cash by putting on a dress and dancing for some people at a club. So Molly went with clarrise to the club, the manager gave her a costume and she danced for them.

What should have only lasted for a few weeks, dragged into months and after that years. There was always something in her telling her to go home, however she shunned that thought away, thinking that she was too unworthy. One day, while she was at the grocery store and she heard someone calling her name. she turned around and saw that it was the boy's brother. He said "I have something to show you, will you please come with me to the car?"He pulled out a huge box and passes it to her. "Will you please go home to your dad, and tell him where you are, he has been writing to me everyday at my address since you left and I am so tired or receving his letters." you please please tell him to stop writing to my house?" Molly took the box back to the club and placed it on the table, refusing to open it, thinking that she was too unworthy to receive her father's love.

Another four months passed, it was the day before Christmas. Because she did not want to be by herself, she decided to go to work. She went to the club and saw a letter on her dressing table. She gazed at clarisse who told her, "A very good-looking old man came in and put it the letter on your table, begging me to ask you to open" Something within her made her read the letter, after reading the contents of the letter, she took her car, drove for 5 hours to go home and went home into the loving arms of her father, who embraced her. She made it just in time to dance with her father under the christmas tree, just before the clock struck 12.

Guess what the letter said?

It said, "Molly..will you have one last dance with me?"

As she dances in her father's arms, she says, "Im home daddy, Im home."

May this story bless your heart and remind you once again of God's amazing love for each and every one of us. May you choose to dance with God again, God is always waiting for us with open arms, waiting in anticipation for us to have one last dance with him. All we have to say is "Yes God I am willing"

Isaiah 55
Invitation to the Thirsty
1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
hear me, that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor."
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD's renown,
for an everlasting sign,
which will not be destroyed."