Hello! I just wanted to announce that on March 12 at 9:35 AM, I welcomed a granddaughter into the world! To the left is a picture of her... more will follow...
C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters published in 1942 really hits the nail on the head by describing what it really means to pick up one’s cross and follow the Lord. In one of Screwtape’s letters to his nephew Wormwood, he says: “He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
Have you ever felt like God has forsaken you? As Screwtape says, there are times when God must take His hand from us so that we’ll learn how to walk in His ways. We please Him most by doing something that would be a great service to another, even if we don’t really want to do it. Some of the things we can to please God are to visit the residents in nursing homes, send Bibles to the U.S. troops, help feed the hungry, pass out blankets to the homeless, and give someone who is panhandling your spare change, even if you believe that the person doesn’t need it because everyone else has already given enough already. By doing these little things, not only are we brightening the world, one action at a time, but we’re also giving God reason to rejoice over us.
Until next time...
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