I find the truth so very hard.
It is easy to get caught up in the "necessities" of my life. It is hard to remember how blessed I am.
It is easy to complain about the price of gas and food. It is hard to remember many people don't
have cars.
It is easy to look at my closet and say I have nothing to wear. It is hard to think of those who
actually have nothing.
It is easy to want the bigger and better house, car, phone, or vacation. It is hard to remember
what I actually need.
It is easy to turn off the tv when things I don't want to see come on. It is hard to watch.
It is easy to get worked up about an issue; poverty, homelessness, domestic violence. It is hard to actually do something about it.
It is easy to depend on myself. It is hard to give myself over to God and ask what He wants.
It is so much easier to not know.
But I do know.
What now?
My youth minister from high school once sent me a letter that said this:
ReplyDelete“I imagine that you may ask yourself, “Ok, what's next?” I encourage you to let the answer to that question be, whoever the next person you encounter is. What I mean is sometimes we have these huge events that we are involved in and when it is over we are looking for the next huge event to get involved in. I am encouraging you to view every interaction you have as the next huge event, because you never know when that one on one interaction is going to change a life. And God working though us to change a life is one of the biggest events we can have”
-Chris Rogers