May 13th, 2020: A Helping Hand...

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Sometimes I need to do something with my hands in order to feel like I am getting something done. Working with people and their life issues, I rarely have the pleasure to know I actually accomplish something. It is always working progress and sometimes it goes backward. My coping mechanism for that is to find something to fix practically. And yes, I have been in this line of work since 1984.

Why do we have the desire to help people get better? Maybe we see the beauty in other people's lives that they cannot see for themselves. Maybe we realize that human suffering was not part of God's plan for humanity. When we have the need to reach out and help others, we discover something about ourselves in God. Personally, I don't think that God's spirit lives within me when that happens. It is me who lives within God.

When we choose to live life in such a way, we actually become more aware of our own spiritual poverty, emotional bankruptcy, and physical feebleness. Yet, in the midst of all that, we discover the needed strength to go forward. Sometimes I actually have no words to comfort those who suffer. The only thing I have to offer is my mere presence. Words escape me and I would not make any sense if I open my mouth.

Have a good day today and help someone if you are prompted by God to do so. God is not too concerned about what you have to give. He is more concerned about whether you would give yourself in the act of caring.

"But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me." (2 Corinthians 12: 9)

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