Wondering…

Today I had come into the office with the hopes of getting so much done…

Yes I know I set myself up for failure right there.  I had high expectations of my day. I had planned out what was going to happen and how many things would be done by lunch and how I would go and visit the hospitals after lunch and maybe get a walk in before hand bell and choir practice tonight…

Then the phone rang and someone wants to have a meeting…  Why didn’t someone tell me there would be all of these meetings that seemingly have nothing to do with ministry. Most meetings I’ve been to are ways to find ways to keep us from being with the people.  Do we not realize that ministry happens usually not in the walls of the church but when we are out in public with the people. At the gym, the Y, or McDonalds, or the library, or the local pub, or on the streets, in Wal-Mart, or the grocery store. Jesus spent his time at synagogue worshiping but then he spent the most of his time with the people, and not the people he went to church with. He spent his time outside of church with the people where they were in their environment, not asking them to change because he was there, but being there so he could bring God’s love and mercy and grace to them, where they are.

I wonder why we spend so much time in meetings trying to control things, and make everything the way we want it to be.  Why do we try to force our ideals and needs on everyone else around us.  We are not all created the same way, and God loves each of us the same. He gives us all the same grace, and NONE of us deserve it. We are all sinners and broken. And that is truly the wonder of it all, that God love a sinner like me, even though I do not deserve it, even though I let him down each and every day.

Thank you for the cross and for loving me. Help me to be som empowered that I will go and be with your creation where you created it and love it as you do unconditionally…