Do you ever just want to get away and be “YOU”? I did that over the weekend! I was able to just be the “SISTER”! We had a super fun weekend! Don’t get me wrong...I LOVE being a
Wife, a Mom, and a MiMi but sometimes getting to just be me is super neat and very
refreshing!
The best part of the weekend is that we got to
celebrate the first birthday of my niece Karmyn Ann! It seems like only yesterday that she was
born and we were traveling 4 1/2 hrs. to meet her for the first time! Happy Birthday sweet one!
We stayed with my sister Kayda’s Grandparents in Law
{Jake & Esther}. I’m pretty sure I’ve
never met more hospitable people in my life!
They always open their home to us and treat us just like family! It makes you feel as if you’ve know them all
your life! They are definitely blessed
with the gift of Hospitality! Thanks so
much Jake & Esther for always making us feel SO welcome! So many times I don’t feel like I can do
enough to have guests over! Esther made
a bowl of cereal feel like we were eating at the most expensive restaurant in
the world! It wasn’t the food that made
it so special, it was the fellowship, the devotion Jake & Esther shared, and
their love of others that makes you want to keep coming back every weekend!
We did a little shopping...{Thanks Dad}! We ate a FEW meals! And simply hung out and caught up on
everything! Sunday we went to church
with Joe & Kayda! The speaker of the morning was a Missionary! Now I have to admit
I kind of most definitely had an attitude when I realized we were
going to be listening (for an hour) to a missionary! Sorry, just being honest! Please don’t send me ugly comments...I LOVE
the work missionaries do (far more than I do) and I pray for them but I really wasn’t in the mood to
listen to them on this particular Sunday!
Don’t tell me you’ve never felt that way! I’m sure my mood stems from the fact that they
are out there doing God’s work while I sit at home and selfishly enjoy doing “life”! That’s usually when God gets a hold of me and
says... “Listen up Girly, I have a different plan for you today so LOSE the
attitude!”
These missionaries are headed to China! They’ve been in the training phases of it for
the last 14 months! They have 3 small
children and are headed there for several years. Bless them!
I just have to share with you one example he gave us
that really tugged at me.
When a person witnesses a car wreck and is asked to
testify, the jury doesn’t want to know our expertise knowledge on car wrecks in
general! They just want to know what we
have just observed in that particular wreck!
It’s the same as being a Christian...We don’t’ have to be an EXPERT or a
Seminary graduate to share about Jesus, we just need to share what we’ve
experienced in our own life! What He’s
done for us!
Now isn’t that something! I tend to think that I’m not smart enough
& I don’t know enough so I’ll just let the experts do the work! *Discipleship means becoming more Christ
like! I guess you could say I’m a work
in progress! SO it IS my job to
share! I don’t have to be a
Preacher, Missionary, Evangelist, etc... NO TITLE NECESSARY to share
what the Bible teaches! I’m called to be
a “missionary” in my own back yard so I better get to work!
James 1:22-25
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and
so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone
who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks
at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and
immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law
that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but
doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
I guess it’s time to get out of my selfish comfort
zone and get to work as a “missionary” right where I’m at! I’m not supposed to wait to be sent somewhere
to share what I’ve experienced in my own life!
I AM a Missionary! All I have to do
is open my mouth and share what I know and what I’ve experienced myself! How about you? Are you doing mission work right where you
are? If not, you and I both need to “LOSE”
the attitude!