June 3, 2014
Greetings My Friend,
I'm back from my morning walk and
needing time to catch my breath so I am writing. It works! I'm
learning to slow my pace down even more so and I don't need as many
rests along the way and I walk further. My thought is movement not
time is important at this point.
Since the heat of summer has hit I've
begun a new routine. I do my usual wake up on the computer time,
write on FB and write a post for my 2nd FB page. I am
getting a good response as I tag different friends. I find that their
friends tend to check out my page and often comment on what I wrote.
It finally clicked yesterday at church
for me. They were requesting for volunteers to help with VBS. I love
children and I long to help on different programs. I wear out too
easily these days and every attempt to help at church seems to not
work out. I have helped at the other churches on different ministries
and loved the time I spent helping.
I feel like as a member of the church I
have a responsibility as well. Yesterday I realized that God is
calling me to ministry outside the church proper. My ministry is
writing, being a wife to Junior, working at building relationships
with my family and within the community.
J and A come to mind. They were
instrumental in starting a few ministry outreaches at the church we
attended. They were the start up team and would run it for a few
years. They then would start another outreach and run that. In the
last year they have gone into the mission field overseas. They are in
their late 60's and starting another outreach.
So they within the church proper for
years and now they are expanding their outreach. I'm starting to see
this may be the direction I'm being pointed to. I don't see overseas
mission work due to my health issues but outreach in my community
that seems real nice.
A young man went to Sunday school
yesterday. He came to Junior's class for young men. He is an atheist
and I felt he was exploring. Anyway we went to breakfast yesterday.
We had decided we had not been out for a while that we would go.
Ironically the restaurant we went to was where this young man worked
and was serving tables.
We had a very interesting chat with
this young man. Junior gave him a card we had made up with our phone
number and such. He told him if he wanted to he would discuss our
faith with him. So we were in ministry and we wanted to go to
breakfast, the young man came to Junior's class and....to me God set
this up for us to enter into.
There was a mistake on our order and we
mentioned it. Both the server and the cook were upset. They were
trying to make things right and we mentioned that we just wanted them
to know and help clear up any miss-communication. A wonderment is if
we were presenting a Christian face that may have been needed. I'm
not sure but it is a thought.
In the past few years Junior reached
out to a 2nd generation welfare young man. He helped
Junior and learned a few skills. A few months ago he enrolled in a
truck driving class. He now has a job and the transformation is
astounding. His Mom has been on disability for 30 or 40 years now.
She hurt herself real bad in a car accident and working was out of
the question. She has been my friend now for several years and we
have stepped in where we could.
Our nephew is another one we have
reached out to. I keep seeing that God is placing us in certain
situations and we need to be ready to step out in faith. Being tied
to organized things is not helpful and I am finding that is OK. Our
focus is in a new direction.
For the first time in years I am not
grieving being involved in organized ministries. I am where I need to
be doing what God wants me to do. I feel a weight lifted off of my
shoulders. God is happy with me doing what I am doing.
Are you listening to God's calling for
your life or are you just trying to do good works? I know I still get
caught up with “showing” my good works at times.
May God bless you and keep you make His
face shine on you.
Love
Janet
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