Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and Moms freely brushed away tears.

This class would NOT pray during the commencements—not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it.

The principal and several students were careful to stay within guidelines allowed by the ruling.  They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on the graduates or their families.

The speeches were nice, but they were routine…..until the final speech received a standing ovation.

A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone.  He stood still and silent for just a moment, and the, it happened.

All 92 students, every single one of them, suddenly SNEEZED!!!!

The student on stage…simply looked at the audience and said, “GOD BLESS YOU, each and every one of you.” and walked off stage…

The audience exploded into applause.  This graduating class had found a unique way to invoke God’s blessing on their future with or without the court’s approval.

This is a true story; it happened at the University of Maryland.

Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store. She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries. She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food. John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store at once. Visualizing the family needs, she said: ‘Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I can.’  John told her he could not give her credit, since she did not have a charge account at his store.

Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two. The customer walked forward and told the grocer that he would stand good for whatever she needed for her family.  The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, ‘Do you have a grocery list?’ Louise replied, ‘Yes sir.’ ‘O.K’ he said, ‘put your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries.’

Louise, hesitated a moment with a bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed.  The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down.  The grocer, staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, ‘I can’t believe it.’  The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more.

The grocer stood there in utter disgust. Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement.  It was not a grocery list, it was a prayer, which said:  ‘Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands.’  The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence.  Louise thanked him and left the store.

The other customer handed a fifty-dollar bill to the grocer and said;‘It was worth every penny of it . Only God Knows how much a prayer weighs.’

• Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
How did life begin? Did God create the heavens, the earth and humankind? Or is our existence the result of a random, undirected process? Regardless of your answer, as Americans, we know that the freedom to wrestle with such foundational questions about our existence is of utmost importance. And, yet, that is what is happening.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, starring Ben Stein, reveals the suppression of many who attempt to be part of the debate over the origins of life. Supporters of Neo-Darwinism refuse to allow opposing viewpoints to be heard, leaving students and the American public with a one-sided (and severely lacking) argument.

“Ben Stein’s film, Expelled, makes a powerful case for Intelligent Design in explaining the origins of life and the creation of the universe,” observed Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family. “It also exposes an entrenched and aggressive Darwinist establishment in academia that suffocates all competing points of view. Highly qualified professors and scientists who dare to question evolutionary orthodoxy are systematically excluded or summarily dismissed. It is political correctness run amuck on university campuses. Stein sets out on a mission to find out why I.D. is most often expelled from the public square, and what he discovers in this riveting documentary is incredibly enlightening. I recommend the film enthusiastically.”

Since this past Thursday we have seen our Mighty God work His mighty power in Meredith Taylor’s life. Thursday night no one could predict if Meredith would live following surgery on her brain. Now just four days later she is out of the ICU, she is sitting, walking, using the facilities, eating and drinking. She still has a way to go; pain continues to be an issue that must be managed, she is still processing the events of the past four days, and she has those facial fractures that her doctors must make some decisions on. But we can give praise to our God that He has worked and we can continue to pray for His working in Meredith’s life.

An I Spy can be anything that brings God glory. It can be an answer to prayer, something that God has revealed to you in His Word, or a way in which another person has blessed or encouraged your life.

The focus is always on God’s working amongst us and not on us. As we share His working and give Him glory, those who read will be greatly blessed.

Thanks for sharing God’s work in your life.