Time or Talents...

...which do you think is more important?

Last week was the National Volunteer Week. Besides the "thank you" emails I received, I heard one organization's TV ad thanking their volunteers for giving their time and using their talents. It got me thinking - and now typing...

Praying "openly"

Almost 2 years ago I wrote a piece - actually it sounded more like an ad - titled:

"Prayer Partner needed!"*

Few...and feeble

Some time after I became Mrs. Pastor, Jesus' words in Luke 10: 2 became so clear and real to me...

He said to them, “There is such a big harvest of people to bring in. But there are only a few workers to help harvest them. God owns the harvest. Ask him to send more workers to help bring in his harvest.* 

All I did...

...was marry my best friend.

I know that it may be different for some of us but I'm sure that for a lot of us - including a dear friend of mine - we just married our best friends and with time or even before we knew what was happening (to us) we became "Mrs. Pastor."

Sometimes I look back & wonder what I did wrong...by marrying my best friend. I don't know about you, but I'd guess it's similar: I find that it's not easy to "show" and/or "tell" how you really feel about a lot of things (or even people) because it can be easily misconstrued as "She's too sensitive" or "She's not spiritual" & so on.

Why not?

Yes "Why not?" - that was my question when I was debating with myself on this topic:

Why can't I say things as I see them i.e. just the way they are?

I know that a proverb goes:

"It's not everything eyes see that the mouth says."

I checked and have no idea who the author is so let's attribute it to our elders - yes they are/were very wise - only when it lines up with God's word though...

Back to the matter at hand: