Open Blogging
“Despite all evidence to the contrary, I remain hopeful. Somewhere out there someone is reading the Sermon on the Mount, and considering it as a life. Somewhere out there someone read Matthew 25 and decided to help in a soup kitchen. Somewhere out there a young pastor is sitting by a hospice bed saying prayers and holding the hand of a stranger who is dying. Somewhere out there a small group is celebrating the Eucharist together before they go out at night with sandwiches and blankets for the homeless. Somewhere out there someone believes the truth of Jesus and the gospel and is looking for others of like mind and a place to belong…In God’s time, the Church may rise among us again.” Duane Arnold
Now, it’s all yours today…
Hosea 14:9
9Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
Whoever is discerning, let him know them.
For the ways of the LORD are right,
And the righteous will walk in them,
But transgressors will stumble in them.
They’re out there. My school is collecting personal care items for the homeless. They go into nice little bags and are sent to shelters. My church has Bible clubs at two local schools (and there are many more in my area) that provide Bible instruction, recreation, and a healthy snack. Most of the schools involved are in low- income, high immigrant areas. God’s people have always done God’s work-sometimes we just need to be a bit quieter about it.