Faithful Service

I just got back from Women’s Retreat with my church. It was a wonderful experience. I spent a lot of my time there on the hospitality team serving the beautiful women of my church copious amounts of food. It is amazing how much snack food 150 women can consume in 42 hours away from their kids and husbands.


I loved it! I loved tangibly doing something for others. I work in Foster care and Adoption so one would think that serving the fatherless for a living would be satisfying, while it has moments of reward it is hard to make a tangible difference in mounds of paperwork, e-mails, and phone calls.

On my way into work this morning I became discouraged to leave behind the community I had been living in this weekend, full of women loving the lord and one another. As I drove my strong desire to serve others for the Lord just wouldn’t go away.

In my previous Blog I talked about an organization called The World Race. I know it is not yet my time to serve in that organization, if ever. But I felt the desire so strongly this morning. Because it was on my mind I said a few prayers for Team Deep Roots that is now serving in The World Race in Malaysia. Their names are Chandler, Silas, Bethany, Sandy, Katie, and Mandi. Right now they are ministering to mentally chalanged and physically disabled people at Bethany Home in Simpang Empat, Malaysia. If you have a moment say a prayer for them.

I long for that kind of life, for my purpose to be to love on others and nothing else. I long to live a life where I don’t have to worry about paperwork deadlines, non-profit advertizing signs, minimum standards, identification lanyards, closing out files, recording used miles, office hours, conference powers, shredding piles, clothing aisles, checking e-mails, leaving voice mails, repetitively making copies, recording children’s hobbies, Background checks, and aching necks.

I love my Job I really do but I just feel like nothing I do makes a difference. And I want make a difference, I want to be significant in someone’s life in a real way and letting them know that all that I do comes from the Lord. It is hard to do that in my current setting even though I have no doubt that it is where God wants me.

I am reminded of the Parable in Luke 16. Most people use it to compare money and say that those who love money cannot also love God. While that has merit, and should be addressed, God used Luke 16:10-12 in a different way for me.

If I cannot serve others where I have been entrusted to serve them (in my Job) then why would God entrust me with other places to serve. For those who are faithful in little are also faithful in much. I must learn to be faithful with the little I have been given before I can be trusted to be faithful in the many desires of my heart.