“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy” Leo Buscaglia

I’m not normally a person persuaded by faces that pop on toast and clouds that could have a meaning written on them, but I was asked to look at something from one of my relatives who is a sweet innocent 28 year old. Sheri has been a very serious person of faith since she has been 4 years old. Her mother was recently diagnosed with cancer and has been flying to Chicago for treatment. Since she has found out about her cancer, the whole family has made the shift from part time Christian to fulltime follower. Prayer has become a normal family activity and they have experienced a lifestyle of learning to walk in faith.

Last night at “The Old Spaghetti Factory”, Sheri began to explain a story to me that she thought I might think a little weird, but felt comfortable enough to tell me about it. Our conversations always turn spiritual and this time was no different. She said she was talking with God during breakfast and asked for strength for her mom and to be healed of her ailment. As she was having her breakfast, she noticed something on a piece of her cereal, it was a cross. She had just been asking God to provide since He is “The Bread of Life”, when she noticed the cross on the one Chex cereal. As I mentioned, I don’t usually get too involved with these kinds of things, but I was interested and knew that this might be a little different. You see, Sheri is a “Worry wart”. She constantly worries just about everything and also cares a great deal about people and their welfare. As we talked about this strange phenomenon, I thought of what it meant to her. I spoke of her worrying and the worrying that she does takes her focus away from God. That this cross was for her to focus on Jesus and not the problem.  Jesus spoke many times about worrying. We can do nothing in worry, except take our minds to places they don’t need to be. I like this little cross on a piece of cereal which in reality is bread. Jesus called Himself the bread of life. Considering He was born in Bethlehem, which in the Hebrew means, “The House of Bread”. Many ancient cities were named by what they did, which in this case the maker of life which is the bread of life, was born in the house of bread. Remember the next time you worry, Jesus wants to be your source. Hebrews 12:2 “keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God’s throne.

One of the crazy things about this piece of cereal, is once it was photographed the cross vanished from the cereal. Sheri wanted to save it, but as soon as she took the photo it was gone. Kind of like the bread that fell from Heaven in the desert for the Hebrews once they were free from the bondage of slavery from the Egyptians. This bread was known as “Manna”. The Manna would only last one day, so the Hebrews could not store it, but had to depend on fresh delivery daily. A reminder for us, that we need to depend on Him daily.