December 26, 2011

• Truly Blessed

  I recently finished the book, Kisses From Katie. 

  

  I cried and cried as I read it.  I cried because reading it during the Christmas season, a time of excess (excess food, toys, gifts...) reminded me of how truly blessed we all really are.  Even those of us here in America with little have so much more than these precious children of Uganda. 

  My husband is a pastor of a church in the second poorest county of South Carolina.  It adjoins the poorest county in SC.  I blogged the other day about the culture or mentality of poverty.  Unless you have worked in a culture of poverty, you might not "get it" and that's okay.  It is kinda like trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper. What little you can do is never enough.  There is always more need.  Thankfully, when God calls you to something the discouragement lasts only a moment and God moves in hearts to keep going. To keep filling the eyedropper, emptying the ocean one drop at a time. We will not eliminate poverty. We're just here to love, give, and because of God's great goodness - receive.  Katie in Uganda reminded me of that. 

  I believe anyone can be and should be a missionary right where they are. Luke 12:48 says, "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." And we have been given so much.  We are truly blessed. 

  P.S. We had a wonderful Christmas.  So very blessed by God's provision and goodness.  We are remembering in prayer several of our friends/family who have lost their jobs in recent days.  And finally, we are STILL waiting for baby to make an appearance.  Due date is four days away. 

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