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Share Intentionally

In her book, Mary’s Way, Peggy Tabor Millin told this story, “I was on a train on a rainy day. The train was slowing down to pull into a station. For some reason I became intent on watching the raindrops on the window. Two separate drops, pushed by the wind, merged into one for a moment and then divided again – each carrying with it a part of the other. Simply by that momentary touching, neither was what it was before. As each one went on to touch other raindrops, it shared not only itself, but what it had gleaned from the other.

I saw this metaphor many years ago and it is one of my most vivid memories. I realized then that we never touch people so lightly that we do not leave a trace. Our state of Being matters to those around us, so we need to become conscious of what we intentionally share so we learn to share with intention.”

I’m at the Sr. Center helping prepare the taco salads and serving the “old folks” today. What are you up to?

See ya later!

Do Good

Do Good

Today the Pope’s tweet spoke to my heart:

“May God, the lover of life, grant us the courage to do good without waiting for someone else to begin, or until it is too late.”

w2.vatican.va/content/france…

Speaking of Doing Good:

Pastor Kurt’s Refuel message stirred my heart and moved me to share with you this morning’s devotional from him at his Bayside Church near Sacramento, CA :

Pastor Curt reminds us that they’re not invisible to God,
so they better not be invisible to God’s people!

CityServe2019 bit.ly/devo090219

The World Hurts

Sometimes my heart swells with the pain of the world’s hurt.
I heard the call to do good;
I listened to the challenge
related to young girls and their pitiful condition,
and now I sit here in the warm sunshine
flowing into my sanctuary wondering.
What can I do?

Do Good

Do all the good you can
To all the people you can
Whenever and wherever you can.
And don’t forget to pray.
God’s mercy far outreaches
Anything we can do.

Have a blessed Labor Day (my USA friends✌🏽)
and a Marvelous Monday eve
(my growing list of friends from India
and around the other side of the globe).

See ya later