Why wouldn’t you?

I’ve spent the last 4 years working for Hospice, as the Spiritual Care Coordinator. Yesterday, reality struck me across the face, that I could not do it (well) anymore. These wonderful folks and their families need a lot more than I can give. So, I resigned. And then I cried. While Hospice care can be difficult, it is also an amazing blessing. What is it like to sit and hold the hand of someone who has weeks, or days to live. To experience those final moments with them, and their families. Let me tell you what….it will completely change your perspective on life, death, and everything in between. Back in 1995, my friend Tim Archer and I went to India. The plane landed in Bombay, which was just a stop over for us. Flying low as it approached the runway, Tim and I looked out at the hundreds (thousands?) of tin huts that people lived in. Little kids running around in poverty to the full extreme. And I recall Tim saying, “You know, if everybody in the church could just land in Bombay, it would change their whole perspective. They don’t even need to leave the plane.” Just land here, and they would all be changed forever. It did me. I never ever saw the world the same again. Our perspective. What we look at, and what we believe about what we see. But more than that, what is God showing us. When we look without considering Him, everything is meaningless. We can truly say, “vanity, vanity, all is vanity”. Everything we do, can be with, or without, God. We can pray without God. We can read God’s word, with no thought about Him. We can sing praise. We can lead praise, and our thoughts and concerns are on a million other things. We can go to work, go to school, go to the mall, and have no conscious thoughts, about God’s thoughts. But when we do…. when we do……when we consider God in everything. Our perspective about everything, changes. It has to. You cannot consider God in decisions, choices; and not have a whole new way of looking at those decisions, choices. You cannot look for God’s heart in situations and circumstances, and not powerfully impact everything. So, why wouldn’t you?…..I mean…., really? Why wouldn’t you?

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