thoughts

OF NOTE : Our Women's retreat has arrived! It is tonight and tomorrow. I am looking foward to it ! I want to ask all of you to please say a prayer that through the material God has given us, we are able to touch lives. Be praying that minds and hearts are opened...seeds are planted and great fellowship is had by all! Please pray over all of us coordinating the event, that we honor God and are giving the wisdom to make an impact.


As we continue with our study of Daniel, I am reminded constantly of how much our world is the same as it was hundreds of years ago. We have the same types of battles and situations going on now that we did then.

Something that sticks out in my mind this week is our priviliged enviorment. The things we have to come to expect and demand. The attitudes of people that think their lives are sooo hard, because they have never known what hard really is. We whine and cry over such mundane things it is really sad when you look at the whole picture of the world we live in. We are paying money to get cosmetic treatments, and then we are whining about how it hurt.... these types of things are major issues to some of us. It is sad. It is pititful.

My friend was telling me of a documentary she watched recently. It had a segment showing how some of the tribes in Africa were making mud cakes. These mud cakes were to eat for their nourishment. They added a little oil and a little water, and actually had this for their meal. We cry about not getting dessert.

Alot of what we expect is what we are used to getting. However, it doesn't make it our right to deserve this. How can we cry over such menial things when people are literally starving? freezing? homeless? living in fear for their lives?

I know when we went to New Orleans with others from our church, life was different there. We were thankful to have a place to sleep. To be able to eat and have something cool to drink. We didn't much care what the food was or what the enviorment was like. Our desire was to help others and bring them relief. We shared everything, we appreciated everything. We had a different attitude and a different mindset because we were in a different enviorment. We had different expectations. We were grateful...it showed us how to be grateful.

I think every person should be mandated to go and serve somewhere.. somehow. At least once a year if not more. We need this reminder of how privliged our lives are. We need to quit whining and having self pity and stand up and make a difference. As Beth Moore says, the very fact that I can sit here and type this..... one that I have the knowledge and two that I have the leisure time~~ well, that makes me rich !! I am rich beyond measure to so many. Yet, so many of us have come to expect this lifestyle. That in itself could be our greatest downfall.