Schatzi

By Carla J. Wells

Schatzi is a German word for 'little dear'.  It speaks to things we hold dear as treasure.  This book looks at the many things we treasure and the many ways we treasure what's important to us.  Most importantly, this book considers God given treasure and the positively profound affects it can have on our lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carla Wells
• Release date: Dec 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386041214

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The Greatest Treasure

How great was your best discovery?  Was life better?  Did you find the treasure in the sand, on top of the sand, in the hills, up a tree, from a friend’s hand?  Did your son or daughter bring it to you? What emotions did you have when you touched the treasure?  Relief?  Gladness? 

Do you remember the expression on your face?  Did the sight of the treasure cause your eyes to dance?  Did you think a thought like, finally somebody noticed me?  I’m alive.  Explosions of yippee?  How did it color your world, your mind?  Did blue, purple, gold, reds or greens show up?  Did some color not on the color wheel cover everydayness and turn that day into extraordinariness? 

By far the greatest treasure my daughter found somewhere around her 20th month of life was the moon. Once I showed her the moon, she’d look for it nightly.  She’d spot it, and say with great leaps of excitement and strength that seemed to take her body upward to the moon ‘the moon, the moon...!’  She still gets moon happy. I get moon happy just seeing her moon happy.  When I look at the moon I think of her, and when I think of the moon I think of my child who I treasure dearly.  She gave me the treasure of sight to really see the moon no matter how many times I gaze at it.  She doesn’t just see the moon.  She delights in the moon.  I need, we need and want something we never tire of seeing and every time we see it, light flashes in our souls and our spirits. We awaken alive with glee – there it is – the thing I never tire of seeing.

We have a remarkably glee filled Pug.  She bounces up and down over her house people.  When we leave and come home she greets us with jumps of joy every single day.  She leaps off the floor, and wiggle waggles she’s happy we’re there.  A spark sets off in that little dog when she sees us.

Dog gone it, no pun intended, I really want to appreciate the sparks that brightens my pug and child.  Those sparks are life, treasure. I shut down the ‘too busy to notice’ sign that shows itself as if joy is mundane and taxing.  This way my joy may be fully involved with their joy.  You know what I’m talking about.

Joy in what brings joy to others brings joy all around.  My mini prayer:  dear God please keep planting trees of life around us like sons, daughters and jumpy dogs – that we’d take joy in the unusual and expected.

There is great treasure on the ground, in the air, and some yet to be found.  It exists and is waiting to be discovered.  Some treasure gets old in our minds and goes away forgotten.  Sometimes we forget we even thought of that wonderful thing as treasure.  It might end up on the curb waiting for the city to pick it up along with a pile of ‘I don’t need that anymore’.

God is my greatest moon.   I jump up and down when I sense he’s next to me.

Treasure in Heaven

It’s hard to think of heaven as an actual place because we don’t see it.  Heaven is not a widely traveled destination.  Although, there are millions of people who say they’ve been there when they died, meditated, or were in a coma.  The cycle didn’t complete they were sent back to earth by God. Young and old make spirit trips to heaven.  Spirit trips like dreams and visions.

A boy name Aldo McPherson died as a result of an auto accident.  He went to heaven where Jesus told him to return and tell people ‘Jesus is alive’.  Evangelist Jesse DuPlantis was in prayer one day and got taken up to heaven.  He left heaven with a message for humanity.  The DuPlantis message from Jesus: tell them I’m coming soon.

In heaven Aldo saw a gold bridge leading to huge double doors.  People stood outside wanting desperately to get through the closed doors.  The link to this scene is Matthew 25 the story about the ten maids, 5 were foolish and 5 were wise.  The five wise were ready for the bridegroom with plenty of oil and the other 5 were shut out because they hadn’t prepared.  In a book called A Message from God Aldo and his mother Retha recounted Aldo’s journey in heaven and recovery on earth from the auto