Looking Past Yourself Lindsey Carls(Witness) Imagine you were in a crowded grocery store. Your cart is loaded high with this week’s menu items but you still haven’t checked every item off the list. You’re in a hurry. Needing to get home, you rush down the aisle as you head for the milk. On your way, you crash into two shoppers, toppling over one of their carts and bumping into another shopper you didn’t see. But you don’t stop to help, you just keep going. Eye on the prize, you keep your basket wheels rolling. Once you reach the milk you were heading for, you see a teenage girl reaching in for her own gallon. Impatient and irritated, you swipe the milk out of her hand and keep walking. Right now, you’re probably thinking to yourself: “I would never shop like that!” Or, “What kind of stores does she shop in?” But I would like to propose though we may not actually grocery shop this way, we still often live our lives this way. All too often, we fail to see and heed other women in our lives. Sometimes, we live so consumed by our own needs and plans that we fail to slow down and help others in our paths. Looking Out for Others Grocery shopping requires us to keep our eyes up. We must be conscious of the other shoppers strolling the aisles and try to navigate our carts in a way that takes them into account. We yield when we see another basket coming, waiting our turn before jumping for the same item someone else is looking for, and happy to help out if someone can’t reach or find an item. In the same way, we should be on the lookout for the women in our life. As believers, we are God’s chosen instruments to care for those He’s placed in our paths. To serve one another, we must see one another. As a young mother, I was overwhelmed by the stress of small children, lack of sleep, mounting laundry and dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. Adjusting to a new season of life proved more difficult than I expected and.............................. Continue this story ===> Confess your life :)
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 13:05:34 +0000
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