Project: Coffee::Day 4, Part I
Today is a travel mug kind of day. It is the day that my friend Jane and I have the opportunity to minister to an elderly disabled widow by cleaning the home she shares with her widowed son and helping her take a shower. It is a privilege Jane and I have had for almost a year, and an end to this opportunity does not appear to be in site.
I was reminded yesterday that God loves a cheerful giver. I don't think that passage only applies to my money - but to every resource God makes available to me - my time, my energy. It's not always easy to be cheerful about cleaning someone else's toilets - for free - especially when my knees hurt and it is a beautiful morning and I'd love to be outside with my camera. The truth is I can't always be cheerful on my own. Sometimes I need God to pour cheerfulness into my heart for this divine appointment He has given to me.
I have so much more I want to tell about that travel mug, and my widow friend and coffee.
Later...
Labels: Family Life, Friends, Helping Those in Trouble, Project: Month of Coffee
5 Comments:
Thank you for this dear piece. And please tell us more. We need to hear...
Patricia, when my dear mother-in-law, with Alzheimer's, lived with me I had to remind myself of the passage of Scripture, "If you have done it to the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me."
Often I would be so weary and frustrated and this passage would help me so much, just knowing that I was doing it for Christ.
I took pictures of my coffee the other morning, it isn't as easy as you make it look.
dear patricia ... thank you for the "month of coffee" group on flickr. and thank you especially for this post. there is a flow to your words and such deep truth. before reading the other comments, my heart was already on the truth of doing things heartily as unto the Lord. i know that personally a life-truth was established in my heart a few years ago : "it's not a hard thing if it's a heart thing." i believe that with all of my heart. God graces us to do what He places in our heart to do. I just know you are moving out in His grace and you are investing your heart where His heart is.
Know that you are an inspiration!
This is the very best form of giving. And a joy to the giver as well as the receiver. You didn't say any thing about those bananas. They are a little too ripe for me but my Daddy would have liked them. He often bought the bargain bananas.
Blessings,
Mama Bear
I'm looking forward to hearing more :-)
I have several travel cups... some can't go in the microwave, others don't fit in the car caddy, lol, but they all keep the coffee hot!
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