Today’s bit of Wednesday wisdom is something my parents told me many times over the years. This is brought to you by the headache I’ve been fighting for a few days. These words have echoed in my head all day long. (Perhaps contributing to the headache?)
We often tell our children and ourselves that we should do something even if we don’t want to, but somehow we tend to forget this other message. Sometimes we see things we want and have a few extra dollars in our pockets or we have the fixings for something decadent and our sweet tooth is calling out–but maybe it’s not always the right thing to do.
One of the hardest lessons to learn as a grownup I think.
Speaking of hard lessons for grownups, here’s a story that you have to read.
http://www.redletterchristians.org/folks-live-outside-need-hugh-hollowell-red-carpet/
If you read nothing else today, please make time for this one. It is powerful. Hugh Hollowell, one of my heroes, was interviewed and his answers speak the truth. “There should be no ‘others’.” The “Not taking Jesus seriously” problem in the church. Well said and challenging. As we sit and watch the temperatures drop yet again over the next few days and children wish for snow and piles of it, our hearts to Mac and his friends and all of those whose names we don’t know who are sleeping on the cold ground with the wind howling around their blankets and sleeping bags. The first light of morning, the coldest hours of the night, come upon them like a big sigh of relief. They have made it. The day shelter and warmth are just a couple of hours away.
If you pray, please keep them in your prayers the next few days. And keep us, those who can make a choice, those who have the power to make a difference with our hearts and hands, in your prayers too. Sometimes, every now and then, just because we can, we SHOULD.
I Might Need A Nap 