#LIGHTtheWORLD Dec 7

A day of feeding the hungry.  What a wonderful idea.  However, did you ever think that people around you hunger for more than just food?  I have been amazed lately how many people are reaching out via social media and sharing personal lackings.  I am amazed at how many wonderfully talented individual don't believe in themselves or their own abilities.  Unfortunately, I also am seeing more and more people that self exclude themselves from participating in life because they don't see themselves being just like a certain person, as good as a certain person, or believing that they could never change to become like said persons.

Why are we so judgmental of ourselves? I am not pointing fingers, I am putting myself in this line as well.  I know that I have been guilty of judging myself as not good enough, in my own mind, because I have made a preconceived judgment of what I have judged others to be, whether they have stated it or not.  How many of us are guilty of putting preconceived thoughts and maybe even words in the minds of others, because we have judged ourselves in comparison to them.

This is probably one of the hardest judgments not to do.  We say it is easy not to judge others, but we continue to judge ourselves.  Hence, we end up hungering for acceptance, inclusion, or participation.

I don't know if that made much sense, but it is in my mind.

John 6:35 - Jesus is the answer.   He asks us to come unto Him.  Not because others are.  Not because we are like others.  Not because we fit into a preconceived notion of what kind of person we think Jesus would want to associate with.  He will feed all.  He will welcome all.

I can only hope that someday, I am able to do the same.

I started my morning asking how I might be able to serve.  It came in a way that I did not expect.  I knew that I would be in meetings all day with work stuff.  We were meeting at a local hotel conference room.  At one point, I found myself standing in the door way of the conference room.  I had noticed a of ladies seeming to be emptying out a large amount of belongings from their room.  Every 2 or 3 minutes I would see them in the hallway again, with more stuff.  

Then it stopped.  I thought they had gone.  About an hour later, I heard this continual "Thud" noise coming down the all.  I peaked my head out to notice one of the ladies trying to put a severely disabled child in a wheelchair, while dragging the hotel luggage cart, filled to over flowing, behind her.  There was a young man with her, but he too, was suffering from some disability.  He had a Bow, that he was holding horizontally in his hands with a service dogs on leashes attached to each end of the bow.  

The "Thud" was either the wheelchair, as she was steering with one hand, or the bow, as the service animals were pulling the bow into the walls.  I had an opportunity to serve that I did not think I was going to have.  

It wasn't much, but it was something.  I helped them down the hallway and out to their car.  I helped them load up, and get on their way.  I walked away humbled.  This poor lady, traveling almost alone, with such a heavy burden in life.  But she was doing it.  She was doing her best.  That is all that is expected.