As I began to read the post titled Blogs of Note I almost quit reading because I thought it was just a post about him being on the blogger page... but something made me keep reading... As I read the Lord just broke me right here in my green bamboo chair...
He writes from Iraq... From what I gather he is not there as a soldier, but as a humanitarian worker... He has several links on his page to help children of poverty all around the world...
The focus of this post however was not the children, but the interesting people he met in this particular day... a mentally ill homeless man... a deaf mute man...
There situations to an outsider would have seemed full of despair and hopeless... There they were in this war torn nation with disabilities that would be difficult in even the most luxurious places on Earth... yet this writer said this of them...
"How come a crazy homeless man and a deaf and mute with no treatment possible are the two happiest people I met yesterday? What's more ironic....them being so full of joy or somebody like me struggling to find it?"
I felt so ashamed to have complained this morning about the lumpy ketchup at Hardee's... and how tired I was and that I didn't want to go back to church.... or that the weekend was too busy that I didn't get to rest... or that I have a busy week ahead of me.
As a follower of Christ I have the ultimate joy in knowing that I will spend eternity with Jesus because of His work on the cross, but yet I often live with less joy than the poor mentally ill homeless man and the deaf mute living on the streets in war torn Iraq.
I suggest you go read this blog... scroll back to the top and click on it...or just click here if you don't want to scroll back up... Hopefully, we will all work together to live with just a bit more joy this week ahead.
As a follower of Christ I have the ultimate joy in knowing that I will spend eternity with Jesus because of His work on the cross, but yet I often live with less joy than the poor mentally ill homeless man and the deaf mute living on the streets in war torn Iraq.
I suggest you go read this blog... scroll back to the top and click on it...or just click here if you don't want to scroll back up... Hopefully, we will all work together to live with just a bit more joy this week ahead.
3 comments:
Hello Jed,
I am very enlightened with this. This made me realise that I must feel happy knowing that God is so big and really a lot bigger than our problems and trials.
I know that the Lord has a plan for each and every one of us like these 2 men mentioned in this blog.They really have pure and joyful hearts no matter what.They have hearts of true Christians.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Take care,
Evelyn Logan
We take so much for granted that we become self-centered. This week, just seeing my Mom being able to feed herself and take a couple of steps, has really has made me realize just how selfish and complacent we can be. Thanks Jed for this much needed wake-up-call.
This seems to put a dimmer on what we think are our problem hotspots. Man I am so lame and petty sometimes.
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