Before we get started – – –
It’s Afternoon Tea Time
~~ find yourself amongst friends ~~
Saturday the 21st of May from 2.30 – 4.30pm
Join us for scrumptious sweets, savouries and a variety of delicious things to drink.
RSVP by Wed the 18th of May to tracey@thecrossway.com.au
Ladies this is our yearly Cancer Council fundraising event and a great opportunity for us to get together and to bless our community. There will be plenty of room for all so please invite a friend, a neighbour, a sister or anyone you think might enjoy a delicious and fun afternoon tea amongst a great bunch of ladies. We will be having some give aways and a raffle and of course a beautiful afternoon tea. We are asking for a minimum $5 donation for the afternoon. Now if baking and making afternoon tea treats, sweet or savoury is your thing please we would love you to bring something along and Jo Falconer is the person to tell. Please let her know what you will be bringing. If food is not your thing you may like to help by contributing an item to the raffle basket or just spreading the word and bringing your lovely self and a few ladies along. Invitations available Sunday.
An Everyday Kind of a Difference
Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship—a different kind of “sacrifice”—that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets. Hebrews 13:16 The Message (MSG)
Just a drop in the ocean, not even touching the sides, barely making a ripple, too slight to be seen and then there is this one – too little too late.
The things that we do, the difference we make, the one foot we put in front of the other can feel that way. Our smallness can weigh, our limitations more so and some days the bigger scheme and how we fit in is all but lost on us.
But heres what I know, heres what might change the look of your day as you do what you do.
He is a God who works wonders and chooses us, in our smallness and everydayness to work those wonders. Wonders of love and kindness, forgiveness and mercy, patience and acceptance. Heart kind of wonders. Secret hidden wonders.
They don’t shout out loud or come wrapped up big and shiny too often. Mostly they come on plates of food and baskets of clean clothes, in phone calls and kind words and a lift down the town. In talks over fences and time spent sitting with and standing by, in groceries and meals, in listening and just being there and getting up and starting over and and a gazillion other little things we think don’t count for much or we think we don’t do well.
But heres what it’s worth remembering.
You have been chosen to do what you do and not someone else. Your not where you are by some accident or a roll of the dice. God has handpicked you to be that family’s neighbour, that ones workmate, the mother of those children, the wife of that man, a best friend, a sister an aunty, the one in the line or on the bus and sometimes the one that just happens to be there like it or not when that situation blows up or the wheels fall off.
Chosen – even on the days we want to take off running, on the days we feel like were getting nowhere fast and on the days we wonder if were making any difference at all.
We would choose an easier way with saner people if it was up to us. We would choose less heart wrenching, less exhausting and less scary. We’d choose people we could get a handle on, not so messy and mixed up. We’d choose bigger and better and to look good. We’d choose things we feel more qualified for.
So just as well we don’t choose, because we’d choose the easy way and we would never find out out what we are made of, we’d never reach deep, we’d never lay hold of the miracle of God in us and God flowing out of us. We’d never discover what He has put us here for, we’d miss the eternal, we’d miss the whole point of it.
We were put here FOR EACH OTHER and the sooner we let God have His way with us, the sooner we’ll begin to see the miracle. Edie Wadsworth, Life in Grace
Just as well God chooses. Yes He has us doing the everyday hard. The thing we think we can’t do, that we are sure we are mucking up half the time and maybe we are, but its where we learn to lean on God, we learn to live in his grace and we learn that in our very smallness that He can show up big.
And success is showing up and kneeling down. Success is faithfulness, success is faithfully showing up, success is faithful obedience, success is service, success is kneeling down to serve and going lower and decreasing, so He is lifted higher and He alone increases: Success is showing up and kneeling down. (Ann Voskamp)
Love to you all today
Tracey xx
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