Moments

At the beginning of this month, March 7 to be exact at 7:07 pm my daughter birthed a 6# 3oz, 18.5 inch baby girl. The world was great and life was good! I had the opportunity to spend the next several days there helping out with the older sisters, house and dogs. My daughter being a movie buff rented a movie called, "The Soloist" and while we watched the movie I became reminded again of Is 61, "The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,"

Even though I am also one of the brokenhearted, and need someone to proclaim freedom to me, and to be released from prison the movie confirmed that I also had this responsibility to others. It confirmed that I should never get so far away from this truth that I walk in an attitude of "entitlement" that when proclaiming these truths I expect others to practice their faith like I do, or listen to the music I listen to, or expect trials and tribulations to go around me or above me or to expect God to do me special favors because even though my soul is anchored in an unshakable kingdom I do not live there full time yet. It is only in living among those who struggle with job loses, illness, home foreclosures, and the many other trials and stresses that can assail us that I can let Jesus show his love for them through me and that in his love there is peace, joy, kindness, goodness, long-suffering, faithfulness, self-control, and gentleness and this is what we all need to see in our daily lives.

It also reminded me of how we all need someone else and how just one person can make a difference even for a moment of time in the life of someone else. I thank God for the people who have taken that moment in my life. Will you do the same?