JOURNAL/RESPONDING TO SOMEONE IN NEED

JOURNAL/RESPONDING TO SOMEONE IN NEED




“WE GIVE THANKS to God for all of you-REMEMBERING you in our PRAYERS-unceasingly calling to mind your WORK OF FAITH and labor of love and endurance in HOPE of our Lord Jesus Christ-BEFORE our God and Father-KNOWING-BROTHERS and sisters-LOVED BY GOD-how you were chosen” 1 Thessalonians 1:2-4


Paul wrote these WORDS to the Church of Thessalonia-but we have to know that they APPLY to us-just as much as today


WE ALL have different abilities and we are CALLED to use them in this journey we CALL LIFE-USE
your abilities to HELP those in need and be PRACTICAL about it-FOR example-I would love to volunteer or use financial wherewithal to HELP others-but because of my health difficulties-I am NOT
blessed in these areas


BUT I TRY to use my writing and the weapons OF LOVE AND PRAYER to help this world-whatever you have use it to try and HELP someone in NEED


DEAR LORD-we thank you for this BLESSING you call life and we ask you to HELP US help others in NEED
















RESPONDING TO SOMEONE IN NEED




As Christians
In the 21^st century


ONE of the things
We are called upon
To do
Is that when
We see a need
We are to FILL IT


BE FILLED with compassion


That is exactly
What our master
And teacher did
In the 7^th chapter
Of Saint Luke's gospel


ALL PRAYERS
Do NOT come with words


“WHEN the Lord
Saw her


He was moved
With pity for her
And said to her


'DO NOT WEEP'” Luke 7:13


Jesus saw a NEED
And filled it
Because he was filled
With compassion


Nain was
An insignificant town
A few miles south
Of Nazareth


But it became IMMORTALIZED
Because of the MIRACLE
That Jesus worked there


A widow's son died
And she is now vulnerable
Because she has
No family member
To look out for her


“The Lord
Is CLOSE to the brokenhearted
And SAVES those
Who are CRUSHED in spirit” Psalm 34:18


And that is what we too
HIS disciples and apostles
Of this modern day world
ARE called on-to do


BE CLOSE
To those in need
RESPOND
To those in need
COMFORT those in need


“May your UNFAILING LOVE
Be my comfort” Psalm 119:76


The story
Of the widow Nain
SHOWS that God
Shows that Jesus


PERCEIVES our DEEPEST longings
Knows our deepest pain


So whether it be
Someone who has lost
SOMEONE/or something
Dear to them


Someone sick
In the hospital
Or in pain


STEP UP
And perceive a need
RESPOND to someone
In need today


SOMETIMES-in prayer
WHEN we step forward
On our own


NO WORDS are necessary


Robert P. Wallman
9-16-14


Ps INSPIRED by an article in Living Faith Magazine by Sister Melanie Svoboda, S.N.D.





10-19-14