It's been a crazy week!

I am not so sure I can even remember all of the crazy from this week. Have you had one of THOSE weeks too? I guess it is crazy because it has been unusual. Not the normal crazy I experience so it seems all that more unusual.  One of the highlights was a hoped for contact with a draftsman who is working on our building project. We set up a meeting and confirmed our goals and information required for him to begin work.

This building project has consistently been stymied by paperwork of one kind or another. Either we had no idea we needed it or it was not the correct document in the hands of the correct people. There are two phrases that have proven to be true. The first, “it’s all in the paperwork,” and the second, “it doesn’t exist until it’s on paper.” Those two phrases will be the death of me. Not really but you know what I mean. There is progress not on paper yet but progress towards getting all on paper so the physical work can begin not ministry that is already well underway.

We have had the opportunity to assist a medical missions team headed to Guatemala this fall with vitamins for children and some instruments to assist in the care of those children. Simple things really like collecting change and nail clippers will make a difference in children’s lives and the lives of their families. In another project, we are putting together blessing bags filled with personal care items for local children and their families. It is a partnership with our elementary school to make a difference in the health and welfare of children right here. It is crazy how the simplest of things makes the biggest difference.

Crazy how we complicate so many things by creating artificial boundaries to life and living when it was simple and effective within the original borders. At the heart of Jesus message was simplicity. Two commands Love God with all that you are and hope to be and love others like you love yourself. We make those artificial borders by trying to define boundaries to exclude or limit the scope of our love. Jesus made no such borders. His Father made no such borders, “For God so loved the world that he gave…” Love without borders and boundaries, now THAT is crazy living. The crazy continues as he invites us to love like that. We immediately identify a boarder to our love by recognizing our love has limits. Our love runs out like an empty pitcher. God blows that away by promising a limitless supply of strength and love as we trust him and participate in his plan, now THAT is CRAZY.

Crazy like a Fox!

I have to depend on Him to love like that.

That’s just what HE wanted!

That’s crazy don’t you think?

That’s living!

In HIS Service and Yours,

BroG