We plant seeds that will one day grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing they will hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities.
We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation realizing that. This enables us to do something and to do it very well. It may be incomplete but it is a beginning. A step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are workers, not master builders. We are ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
- Oscar Romero
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances.
- George Bernard Shaw
Make a list of the greatest needs and sufferings you see around you, alongside it, create a list of the greatest joys and gifts you have, where do they intersect?
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