I woke up at 8:30 switched on the TV to see what I was missing at home not having cable. Not much obviously. I settled on a political news program about the one year anniversary of Katrina. After heating up my breakfast sandwich in the microwave, I turned on my computer anticipating a peaceful writing morning. Then I reached for the Gideon’s Bible.I read a couple of Psalms, yet my mind was distracted, nothing really sunk it. Then it hit me. I was reading a Bible in my hotel room placed by the Gideon’s. I wasn’t reading any other religious book. I thought of all the rooms in the hotel and all the hotels in my town and all the hotels in other towns. I thanked God for the Gideon’s, grateful for their work in placing Bibles all over the world. I had purposefully left my Bible at home assuming there’d be one for me to read in the hotel. And this time there was.

But what about next time?

I pray I never see the day I won’t be able to find a Gideon’s Bible in a hotel room.

Thank you Lord for your Word and for those who have given to the Gideon’s to make it possibly for people to have your Word. I pray their work continues, their support increases and that those who do not know you, will catch a little glimpse of you one night in their hotel room in a Gideon’s Bible.

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