Do you ever have a moment when you're smiling so big that you think your face just might fall off? :o) Well, that was my evening. I'm taking this class called Perspectives on the World Christian Movement and was pretty excited about taking it after all that I heard from others, but after tonight I'm am STOKED! (Yes, I did just use that word. :o) ) I'm still smiling from the experience I had tonight. 2.5 hours of listening to an 80 year old man speak on the topic of God's Kingdom and His view of the world was SO exciting! Walt Baker was a missionary to Haiti for around 50 years! He and his wife raised 4 children there and when he boiled down his entire ministry he said, "Just love people. Don't try to supplement what people can't do, compliment what they can do." Story after story of this man's life showed his obvious love for his Father in heaven and thus his consequential love for those around him. He challenged us, as the church, to "look WAY beyond yourself! Look to the world!" I'm SO ready to look to the world! I've lost that focus in my life and I'm aching to have it return. Thanks to Walt, it has been brought once again to the forefront of my mind and I'd be on a plane tomorrow if I could be!
Isaiah 61:1-3
"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, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion - to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor." ~ My life verse(s) for the year....
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