I love feeling like I’m being used by God. I love being available to meet the need of someone else. I love serving and being there for others.
All too often I’m guilty of making plans and thinking I know exactly how God “should be” using me. When I’m making those plans I usually think it has to be something big. But those plans are mine and sometimes God’s plans are simple and could easily go unnoticed by anyone but HIM.
This week God chose to use me in one of those super simple ways.
When it comes to my grandchildren there is no limit to what I would do to care for them and help them in their daily walk. Well this week God choose to have me minister to the little feet that are walking beside him.
On Monday I was up to my eyeballs in volunteer work for the Relay for Life. This time of year Monday is Relay day in my world. As I sat at the keyboard sending out emails and trying to recruit others to get excited about the rapidly approaching community event, my phone rang. My caller ID told me it was the school. As soon as I answered, I recognized the voice on the other end. It was nurse Rolanda, the precious nurse at the elementary school where three of my grandbabies attend. Immediately I jump into worry mode, with my mind racing. Is someone sick, did someone get hurt, what’s wrong are the first things to my thoughts. Well when I decided to listen, I learned that no one was sick and no one was hurt, but one of the grandkids did indeed need my help. Yep, God was using me to help them on the path of life. Nurse Rolanda explains that Trista was wearing her new boots that she was so proud of. Those new boots were hurting her feet and were about to rub a blister. The solution…. “Could Mimi bring her some different shoes?” Well of course, tennis shoes were soon on their way to her sore little feet.
Several times during the week I thought about that phone and I was thankful my schedule allowed me to meet the needs of Trista. To be able to provide what she needed at the time she needed, maybe that was how God was using me.
The very busy week passed quickly and soon it was Friday and my day was packed with plans and things to get done. Well suddenly my phone was ringing again and it was once again Nurse Rolanda. Again nobody was sick or hurt, can you believe it…… it was yet another shoe issue. Seriously, my ministry for the week was shoes? This time there were no blisters, no new boots causing pain. This time……. It was dog poop. Yes, you read that right….. Dog poop. Sweet nurse Rolanda explained that Kaiden had stepped in dog poop before coming to school and he was not able to get it or the smell out of his shoes. And you guessed it…… they needed me to bring him another pair of shoes.
I smiled as I looked at the shoes now sitting in the front seat of my car and on their way to school. I smiled and I whispered, “thank you God for using me to meet the needs of another.”
Sometimes God calls us to wash the feet of another and other times he calls us to deliver shoes to school.
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