title: Treasures Of Heaven: Colorful stories of ordinary people from everyday life-encountering an extraordinary God in the most ordinary places.
author:  Babbie Mason 
description: Eternal truths that can transform difficult challenges into beautiful new expressions of God's love and grace. -- <i>Pastor Jim Cymbabla, The Brooklyn Tabernacle</i>
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  I am, you see, a woman plagued by gods.
  It was worse once. Sometimes it felt as if they were everywhere: underfoot, overhead, peering around
  corners, and lurking under bushes. They left glowing footprints on the sidewalks. (I could see that they had
  their own favorite paths for sightseeing.) They urinated on the white walls. They didn’t have to do that,
  urinate I mean; they just found it amusing to imitate us. I found their names written in splattery light,
  usually in sacred places. I learned to read in this way.
  Sometimes they followed me home and made me breakfast. Sometimes they tried to kill me.
  Occasionally they bought my trinkets and statues, though for what purpose I can’t fathom. And, yes,
  sometimes I loved them.
  I even found one in a muckbin once. Sounds mad, doesn’t it? But it’s true. If I had known this would
  become my life when I left home for this beautiful, ridiculous city, I would have thought twice. Though I
  would st