He's got the Whole World...In His Hands...

I hurried into the library to return a long overdue book. As I laid the book on the counter and turned to leave I was arrested by this month's featured display in the curio cabinet. It was of several different types of globes. There at the top was a small globe bank identical to the one I had as a child. I often wondered, out of all the toys I had, what happened to this one?
When I was a child it meant little to me. Just one toy among many. It wasn't until I was grown and it was long gone that I became attached to it.
I must have been about eight years old. I don't know why I was looking for it. I remember walking all around our suburban ranch style house looking here, looking there. I checked all the usual places, in the toybox, under the bed but it was nowhere to be found. Suddenly the solution came to me. I knew exactly what I should do in this situation. I stopped walking and right in the middle of the hall I closed my eight year old eyes and prayed. "Jesus, will you please help me find my piggybank". I stood there for a minute longer and then a picture came to my mind of where it was. I "saw it" under my dad's overstuffed naugahide chair in the living room. Without wasting another minute I walked straight over to the chair, bent down and retrieved the piggybank . I said a quick "thank you" under my breath and went on about the business of being a kid. There was no noise, no fanfare, nothing that would tell me I had just embarked on the journey of a lifetime with the One who had created me, although I'm sure the angels in Heaven must have been making a deafening racket in their delirium of joy.
It would be another year or so before I would kneel with my Auntie on the orange shag carpet (with hands folded on the shiny yellow vinyl couch) in her house and ask Jesus to "come into my heart" and another year or so after that before I realized the significance of that prayer. When I finally came to that realization my whole life turned upside down. Or should I say my upside down world suddenly turned right side up, just like that little globe when I was through shaking all of the pennies out of it.