HELLO WALMART

What a beautiful weekend we had! Once again my limits were stretched.  I rose to the challenge and went forward! Jumped off some rocks, went white water rafting and climbed an intense climb to a 60 meter tall waterfall.  That is big stuff for me! Oh and did I mention that I did all of this on a cold and rainy afternoon!

I was listening to someone talk last night about a story in the bible from Matthew.  I was raised Episcopalian and don’t know a whole lot about the bible so when I hear these stories as an adult it is really like hearing them for the first time. They spoke about the story where they feed 5,000 with only a small amount of bread and fish.  The person sharing brought it to life by explaining that even the smallest things we do, if we give them to God they will be glorified and we will get what we need.  That’s good stuff, right? So it was a mission group from CA that was working through this devotion and it really made sense to me from their perspective.   I mean they are coming here for a week and cramming as much work as they can into that one week.  They are trying to impact as many people in that week as possible, but then what…they just leave and go back to their regular lives. 

The last mission group that was here talked a lot about inconsistency (referring to working with children during their time here). There were criticisms about working with children because they felt as though they were becoming a part of the constant inconsistency that these children feel. People from cruise ships get off the boat, get a tour guide to bring them to a children’s home unload five giant boxes of candy and leave two hours later. Mission groups come and go, volunteers come and go.  Inconsistency is a part of their reality, which sucks…but each person that walks through the door of a children’s home is doing a small mission of a larger goal. Each person will leave at least knowing there are beautiful children in a children’s home in Roatan, Honduras.  That’s more then when they walked in. 

I think as Americans we get so caught up in the quantity factor…HELLO WALMART! That we forget about the quality.  If you can manage to wrap your mind around the importance of the small things you have a gift! If you can only manage one small act of kindness, it’s more than no small act of kindness.  If you can only manage giving a little of yourself to someone else, I’m sure that someone else will be thankful.  I promise that these small things are important, they will put a spark in your heart to continue to love and serve others! However that may look for you personally I challenge you to do a little something today and have faith that it will become a big something tomorrow!