I pray that you are well and want to thank you all for your
prayers and thoughts for our Guatemala mission team, hard at work building
homes and working with our partners in ministry in Guatemala. They’re getting
along well and getting some good work done building three homes.
It’s amazing to be part of a community that is paying
attention to the needs of the poor in Guatemala, in Uganda, and here, in the
Delaware Valley. It’s a sign that even though our lives are not perfect at the
moment (or any moment for that matter), we are open to God’s call. We are open
to God’s call to pray for others, to care for others, to send members of St.
David’s out into the world to make a difference so that others may know the
presence and love of God in their lives, too.
Answering God’s call to go ahead of Him into the world is an
important part of living the Christian life. Jesus sent His first followers
ahead of Him to all the places He planned to go to prepare others for the
presence of God in their lives. Some of them talked about Jesus and the coming
kingdom of God. Some of them performed acts of power. Some of them worked to
clothe and house and feed people as a way to begin to open the way for God to
enter in. That’s what’s going on with our mission trip to Guatemala and that’s
what’s going on in your life and my life today, whether we’re aware of it or
not.
You see, Jesus has sent all of us ahead of Him to prepare
the way for God to come into people’s lives. The way you and I are living our
lives makes a difference in the lives of others and opens the way for God to
enter in. It’s a partnership that builds relationships among people and a new
relationship with God. So how we live each day is important for the people
around us and for God’s purposes in drawing all people to God.
Live today as though it matters to others and let your love
and kindness and generosity open a way for God to enter in. He has sent you to
do just that.
Grace and Peace.
WFA