Quiet as a Church Mouse

"Barnabas Fieldmouse" from Mr. Greenleaf's Unforgettable Summer
Illustration by my friend and talented artist, Dawn Copeland

"The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to Him. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him...Our children will also serve Him. Future generations will hear about the wonders of the Lord. His righteous acts will be told to those not yet born. They will hear about everything He has done." (Psalm 22:27,30-31 NLT)

At the N. Avondale Bible study yesterday, our wise and valiant Miss Evelyn said, "My heart is burdened for lost people, especially the young men and women, because Christians are so quiet and the devil is so noisy!"

In the tenth chapter of Romans, the Apostle Paul wrote: "But how can they call on [Jesus] to save them unless they believe in Him? And how can they believe in Him if they have never heard about Him? And how can they hear about Him unless someone tells them?"

Open your mouth, O Christian, and talk to somebody about Jesus!

Sneak peek into soon to be released 

Mr. Greenleaf's Unforgettable Summer:

           When he awoke the following evening, Mr. Man-in-the-Moon sat in his normal star-studded sky, and the cricket choir crooned their normal merry tune; but Mr. Greenleaf's circumstance didn't resemble normal by any stretch of the imagination - waking under an ivy leaf instead of snug in his tiny cave by the goldfish pond. He moaned,

"With tear-flooded cheeks,

I weep bitterly in the night.

For no one's here to comfort me

Or help to make things right."

              Unbeknownst to Mr. Greenleaf, Barnabas Fieldmous sat nearby nibbling sunflower seeds spilled from the new bird feeder Mr. Willowkins had hung by the screen porch and heard the pitiful lamentation.

                 "Hey now," said Barnabas, "what's all this blubbering about?"1

1 MR. GREENLEAF'S UNFORGETTABLE SUMMER. Copyright Jill Glassco, 2015.