Aww..the perfect day! Picture it: St.Augustine, March 19th, spring time weather, 70 degrees, full sun, breeze in the air, just walking through the old city district, me and my best girl. Just Perfect! Walking down the main drag of the city, we pass a side street; and I stop dead in my tracks! What did I just see? I back up…Bella, my girl, keeps walking. Note to reader: I am forever stopping to catch a second look, my lovely wife, not so much! So…I back up and….there it is! My pot of gold at the end of the rainbow…and wouldn’t you know it? There he is…my full grown, very tall, slightly overweight Leprechaun!! And…he’s singing!! In the middle of the side street!I guess I DID see what I thought I saw! I found my Lucky Charm!
So what do I do next? Wait for it…if you know me personally, you know what I did! I followed the singing!
Walked right up to that full grown, slightly overweight, wearing his very own lucky charm Kelly green uniform—my very own Leprechaun! And he’s still singing… O Danny Boy!!
Apparently, my Lucky Charm is singing for donations, and..get this! That pot-o-gold… is where we put the donations!
That’s not fair! I found the leprechaun—that’s MY pot-o-gold!
And--he’s taking requests! Now this is my kinda leprechaun!
He’s still singing O Danny Boy as I walk toward him…”O Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling!” – note to self- this leprechaun can sing!
A young couple asks him to sing Amazing Grace! Without missing a beat, he starts singing….
So? What do I do?? Come on…you know Brother “A” by now…not a spectator, stand on the side line kinda guy…not me!
I walk right up, put my arm around my Leprechaun…and join him, singing as loud as I always sing, in the middle of St. Augustine, on a pristine spring day “Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound…!”
And Lucky Charms? Doesn’t skip a beat- he smiles real big, puts his arm around me and belts…”that saved a wretch like me!”
Here I am, arm in arm, singing Amazing Grace with a leprechaun! You just had to be there! Well? I could have shown you a picture, but…my perfect wife—not a picture taker!
She was at the end of the street--cracking up laughing, shaking her head with that look that says: “my husband! always gonna Make A joyful Noise, No matter where he is OR who he’s with—even a leprechaun!”
And she’s right!
Psalm 100 says … “Make a joyful noise, unto the Lord, all ye lands! Come before His presence with Singing!”
That’s what it says, right? I gotta obey the Word, right? RRRiiigggghhhhttttt….every time!
When’s the last time YOU Made a Joyful Noise Unto the Lord???? Doesn’t He deserve your praise? Even on a cobblestone side street in St. Augustine, arm in arm...with a Leprechaun???
And the answer will always be...YES!!! He deserves my Praise Wherever I am…even standing next to a funny guy collecting donations in a Kelly green suit, belting out O Danny Boy!
Just so you know…I passed by that street again last weekend…thinking maybe just maybe, my lucky charm would be there; but alas, he was gone!
Did I dream this all up? Nah…I’ve got the picture to prove it!
Until next time,
I’m Just Sayin’…
Brother “A”
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