Testimony Can be Humbling

I spoke at a ministry for the underemployed and the unemployed on Monday, August 16 sponsored by Lutheran Church of Hope in West Des Moines. This goes to show that even though as a speaker you are there to provide encouragement and motivation to them lessons can be learned as well from the speaker's podium. The message was to trust and to have faith because no matter how hard we try of individuals to go it alone, God is in charge. These faces that were looking back at me were ones of hope, fear, uncertainty, and ambivalence> All were searching for something and many wished they were not there. But I also sensed an interest in the ministry, a longing by the participants for something positive in a daily existence that lacks a lot of that. It taught me immediately that being thankful for what one has, no matter how much or how little is critical in this day of a very fragile society. I look around at the blessings I have been given and I need to be saying thanks more often than I do. My sense is those people at the ministry can say thanks even though they have less than many others. Which means those of us who have more, need to get to work on saying thanks more often. It is a great ministry worthy of support and of prayer.