Through the Eyes of a Child

While I am on vacation, I chose to share a blog from July 26, 2019. 

My ten year old niece, Ella, spent the day with me at work.  Before I went into my office she saw the beautiful flowers in the hallway.  I told her two ladies make the bouquets and others pick them up and take them to people who are homebound.  I showed her the medical equipment room explaining that people donate this equipment and then we loan it out to people who need it.  When we got to the kitchen the Egganizers were making egg salad and they told her it was for the Good Shepherd House which feeds the hungry and shelters the homeless.  The prayer shawl ladies came into my office and talked about chemo caps and explained about their prayer shawls and showed her some.  Ella was surprised to see a huge sewing room upstairs, known as the pillowcase ministry.  She thought the bolts of butterfly fabric and all of the colorful ribbons were beautiful and the ladies were cutting, sewing and ironing.  They explained the Bible verse on the pillow case and who they went to.  On the way back to my office Ella saw my stories printed for people to take.  She took the one I had written about camp - which she attended. She wants to be a camp counselor one day, “One of those who is very nice to the little kids and always says, ‘I’ll see you again next year!’”  

Before Ella left, I asked her what she had learned and she responded, “A lot goes on here.”  She witnessed servant’s hearts.  Philippians 2: 5-11, “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.”  She witnessed people doing for others in the name of Jesus.  She saw people using their gifts to serve others.  1 Peter 4: 10, “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others…”

Through Ella’s eyes I was reminded of a song we sang in the 9:45 service called, “Way Maker Promise Keeper Miracle Worker”. It begins, “You are here, You're moving in our midst.”  God is moving in our midst and, like Ella, we only see a glimpse of what all HE is doing!  Through our many ministries, hearts are being connected to Christ and one another!