We got our week started off with our Saturday activities happening! Basketball, visits, gardening, straightening, cleaning, eating was all going on. Our friends living outside are enjoying a break from the hot and humid days. Their spirits are also being lifted up! We visited our long time friend Smokey. As usual, he had been to the grocery store, bought fried chicken, potato salad, cooked a couple of pies for us to enjoy! Humbled beyond words, how this man of God displays his affection for us.
With the children out of school for a couple of days, we only met with them on Wednesday. Great to see all our tutors sitting with their students, learning, laughing and enjoying each other's company. There is more to just educating going on!
Tuesday evening the men of the community gathered, talking about the least of them. Society sees them as misfits, God sees them as saints!
Wednesday evening, Lisa held a Board meeting. So much going on in and around our community. A lot of exciting times ahead for us all.
Thursday evening, our long time friend, Wes shared his gifts of playing the piano and Brother George shared his gifts of sharing the Word. Z whipped up another feast, the Market and clothing room was busy all night as a large crowd enjoy it all.
A special blessing to all our veterans this day. I remember pushing my father-in-law through the various airports on family trips. He would always wear his Marine baseball cap. Strangers would come up to us, shaking his hands and thanking him for his service. It blessed him and us. In honor of him, since he is no longer with us, please do that today. If you see a veteran today, let them know how much we appreciate all they have done to preserve our freedoms.
Prayers for Momma T as she travels to Starkville, Mississippi. Not sure I have ever heard of anyone traveling to Starkville! Must be a reason for her journey!? Prayers for all the new leaders of our government. Praise report for Ginellen. She has passed her final test with flying colors! No fistula! We meet with the doctors on Monday to decide when her final procedure will be to put her back together again. It will be 3 years Thanksgiving week. A long, long road, but we are finally coming to a conclusion, praise God!
Next Thursday will be our annual Thanksgiving feast. We have several groups providing our meal. We will need all the help we can get to serve and clean up. Please join us if you can. Also, as usual, we will be having a meal Thanksgiving day starting at 5:30.
Heard a sermon the other day talking about Matthew 25, the least of them. One of my favorite verses. It has always been a cornerstone of Common Ground. When someone would come to us about an idea, we would ask, does it feed, clothe, quench, visit, invite. If it didn't we would rethink the idea. The least of them is important to God, not so much in society.
Have you ever been hungry and someone offered you something to eat? What about a drink of water when you were hot and tired? When I got cold at a soccer game, I borrowed a blanket from someone who had two! For the past three years during my wife's ordeal, we have been visited by many of you at the hospital or at our home. We are all the least in God's eyes!
God lvoes the least because He can do the most with them. After hearing the sermon, I thought came to me about Moses and King David. We all know how important they are to our faith and to God, but they did not start out that way! The men of the community read from Exodus 3, about Moses tending sheep, minding his own business, out in the wilderness, and God sends an angel to a burning bush. Moses sees the miracle and hears God say to him in verse 10, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people out . . . We then go to 1 Samuel 16, God is looking for a new king. Many brothers were paraded out in front but they were not right. David out in the fields, tending the sheep is summoned to come to the house, in the last part of verse 12 . . then the Lord said, "Rise and anoint him; this is the one." In verse 7, the Lord says to Samuel, "do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."
We are the least! God uses the least for Kingdom building. God sees our hearts, not what we look like. God used the shepherds to tell the world, His son was born, He will use you to make our world whole again. Open up your hearts to His Holy Spirit. Allow His majesty to fill your soul with lvoe. Our community needs you to let go and let God in your life. Amazing things will happen if we do! Amen!
Have a great week. See you Thursday night. God is in control, let it also be in our lives!
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