A victorious villain in hot pursuit of Christians hurtled down to Damascus stopped suddenly by shards of sky light and an unmistakable voice “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” Blinded and bewildered Gamaliel’s student was led on the road of humility through amazing adventures of missionary zeal. The scales that fell from unseeing eyes heralded a new dawn of awakening to a perfect plan for Paul woven by a loving God. Inching along step by slow step fueled the fire of holiness that fanned into the Apostle to the Gentiles. Standing on the sidewalk of life we watch warily as God entices and ignites a spark with divine breath blowing away the cinders, till we too are ambushed in a web of new designs carefully crafted. Memory like a shell cracks open to see the pearl of pure beauty nestled within “the prize of God’s upward calling* in Christ Jesus.” *(Philippians 3:14)