Lucky vs. Blessed and Seeing God in Action
My friend Sharon said something one time that has stuck with me. She said she didn’t like when people say their lucky – luck has nothing to do with life. She prefers to say blessed. It’s true so I have tried to adopt that saying as well.
Tonight was such a great night at neXus Church! The ’2nd week once a quarter’ group from Forest Hill is such a hoot to work beside. Members like Brooke and Nancy are so energized and happy. I really believe that their fun fantastic attitude is felt and then shared by the people we serve as they passed thru the dinner line. And throw in regulars like Kat and Don and what a fun night you have of serving! But I almost didn’t take part in it.
I thought there was enough supplies on hand to pass out Help Bags tonight but we were 63 snacks short of the 200 needed. I was a little disappointed but if there had been enough supplies I never would have got to see God’s hand at work tonight in the back serving dinner like I did so I will call that ***blessing #1***. Help Bag hand out being pushed to July 26th was a great thing!!
Blessing #2 came from my church. Several people had donated small hotel shampoo, conditioner, bar soap and a lot of small lotions. There was a hotel comb in there as well. I wasn’t sure that since a lot of homeless or those people in transition don’t have access to daily showers that it wouldn’t be something they could use. Duh – if God provides something I need to not question it. I’m still learning that one! I put a shampoo, conditioner, lotion and bar soap in a sandwich sized Ziploc and had roughly 25 bags. Then I had an extra 20 small hotel lotions as well…and that comb.
When they opened the doors there weren’t a lot of people in there at first so I decided since I didn’t have enough for the estimated 150 expected that night I would go out right then and ask if anyone was interested in a bag of toiletries. Well guess what – they sure did!!! I started to run out and several men approached me to see if I had lotion… ((giggle))) God moment… So I ran out to my car and got the extra bags of lotion. Then as I passed out the last lotion an older man with a scraggly white Santa type beard and long hair pulled me aside and asked if I had a comb because he had lost his 2 weeks ago. I said I sure did and ran out to my car and grabbed the donated hotel comb for him.
Help Bags and working with neXus in general has taught me a lot of things. The most important is stop questioning when weird things happen and just go with it – it’s all for a reason whether you realize it at the time or not.
So here is my challenge for all of you – recognize your God moments this week. We all have them just sometimes we don’t take the time to be still and recognize them.
Have a blessed week everyone and take some time out to just be still : )