Enough?

DAILY BYTE

When it comes to sharing our blessings, greed is not the only thing we wrestle with, for there is also fear. When we look at what we have, we fear that we don’t really have much worth offering others. We hang back and hesitate in the act of giving ourselves because we are anxious that that we don’t have anything of real value to offer.

A wonderful story is told of Pope John Paul II. Now as a pope he did many wonderful things – he healed divides, wrote books and brought peace. But three little girls will remember that the greatest thing he ever did was kiss them on the head.

What happened was that the pope was very late in attending a certain function, and that many had queued for hours outside the function venue in the hope of just catching a glimpse of him as he entered.

When the pope arrived he was being hurried along by his harassed retinue, when suddenly he stopped in his tracks, drawn by the sight of three energised and youthful faces in the crowd alongside him. Smiling, the pope waved away those who were trying to hurry him along, and he stopped and blessed each one of these little girls by touching them on the forehead and then kissing them.

Their mother burst into tears of joy, whilst others in the crowd were overcome with emotion as they recognised a holy and sacred moment. A busy, overstretched man, a leader on the world stage, found the time to stop and share of himself in a relatively small way with three little girls.

As William Wordsworth once wrote: “That best portion of a good person’s life, those little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

You may not feel that you have much worth offering others, but know that the tiniest, most unremembered acts of kindness and love are immeasurably worth-filled in God’s economy.

Simply because you are blessed to be a blessing, whatever you are blessed with WILL BE ENOUGH to bring tremendous blessing to others as well.

As you wrestle with your blessings, never forget that.

PRAY AS YOU GO

Holy God, whatever I have to offer this world will be enough when it has been blessed by you. Thank you for this comforting truth. Help me to courageously offer myself in your service both in big and small ways knowing that every action in your name really means something. Amen.

FOCUS READING

Isaiah 52: 7

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."