Deep Thoughts While Folding Laundry
Posted on 11.13.07 in General and there are 3 comments.
(It’s 12:03am. I don’t know if this will make sense when I read it in the morning, but I felt the need to write it down.)
I was listening to “When The Saints Go Marching In” by Sara Groves, and I suddenly realized what it means to be The Army of the Lord.
We have a commission, a call, a command to “march” into places of fear and save the needy and the broken; to help the tired and the weary; to fight injustice on behalf of those who cannot fight for themselves.
The children and widows of the world are waiting for someone to come break down the doors of darkness and despair. To rescue them from fear and hopelessness. To bring in the flood of freedom.
Right now, there is a little girl huddled on the floor of a brothel , there is a boy with no one to love him or care for him, there is a widow hungry and alone.
Who is going to fight for them? Who is going to help them?
“Kat, you’re being overly dramatic.”
Nope. I’m being real.
And I’m gonna scrape my calloused heart until it bleeds.
I want to know the names of the hurting and broken. I want to face the need until I feel the pain, because pain requires action.
And when the saints go “marching in” – I want to be one of them.
(This is a different song, but no less powerful. It’s called I Saw What I Saw. Please watch it.)
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Exactly!
Nov 14, 07 at 09:19 am
Great thoughts.
It’s funny because when we choose to follow Jesus, we “get” all these good things. Hope, joy, peace, etc. But mostly we are invited to love. And love, there’s no two ways about it, equals suffering on this earth. We enter into the suffering of Jesus...we are to love like He loves. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, too.
Nov 15, 07 at 06:20 am
i couldn’t agree more with our need to be jesus to the hurting. sometimes it feels so overwhelming though as a simple, sahm-- what can i do?
through a ladies prayer group that i lead we’ve been ‘praying with mother teresa’...and one reflection jumped out at me in a big way. “who are the needy in your home?” i always thought that in order to change the world i needed to run out to africa to save hungry children, but God showed me that, there are children in the walls of my own abode that are hungry for love, attention, discipline.
this does not diminish or excuse our need to do more...but we are making a difference right within our homes if we are ministering to the poor in spirit as well.
great post!
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Nov 14, 07 at 05:04 am