tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670296975576583968.post3073893319777361614..comments2023-07-05T11:18:00.799+01:00Comments on With a Song in my Heart: Filling what is emptySong in my Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13108400300327113931noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670296975576583968.post-20326933092456137942010-12-08T22:18:36.169+00:002010-12-08T22:18:36.169+00:00Thank you, UKViewer. "Not by obligation, but ...Thank you, UKViewer. "Not by obligation, but by Grace" -- beautiful.Song in my Hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13108400300327113931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670296975576583968.post-74582851663711207142010-12-01T11:56:12.335+00:002010-12-01T11:56:12.335+00:00Song,
While you are unsure of whether your contri...Song,<br /><br />While you are unsure of whether your contribution is enough, be reassured that it is. The small things, done in abundance, are enabling for others to make their particular contribution.<br /><br />I often read of work being done by Churches in Newark, New Jersey, where a mission initiative providing meals on Sundays after service has expanded, due to growing need, to involve other churches of different denominations, who work together to provide the resources to allow the particular church to run their scheme. One could not work without the other, which reminds me very much of St Paul's words when I consider how, individuals seeing a need, responded with inspiration and blind faith, initially with home cooked food taken and reheated, to a scheme where many are involved in food preparation, serving it and with volunteer medics and lawyers joining in to help the deprived, homeless and destitute.<br /><br />They too have to have safety rules, and also an expectation that users of their service will accept that drugs, alcohol etc are not acceptable. It is a bargaining position, in which one party fulfills and need and the other accepts it unconditionally.<br /><br />These encounters also provide space for God to work in the lives of all involved - although the aim is not evangelism, sometimes it happens due to the circumstances and goodness of those providing the services interaction with those they help.<br /><br />So, too, your service is providing and enabling those encounters, which may help someone to move away from their position of homelessness - and even, perhaps accept that the people providing the service, might be witness to something missing in their lives.<br /><br />I will pray for you in this ministry, for ministry is what it is, that it may develop and allow you to continue to serve as you feel called to do, not by obligation, but by Grace.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.com