Exalted company☀️🙏🏻

Each lady got gifted a beautiful pendant for Mother’s Day. What is so amazing about that? The beautiful pendants were given to me by a dear lady who would never wear them (gathering dust she said!) so she asked if I would gift them to visitors in our town, folk far away from their own homelands and dear families. Utterly moving! What a privilege to be assigned such an awesome task.

The ladies, joyfully surprised, gifted me beautiful hymns in their own dialect while wearing their new pendants. Yes, the pendants are indeed beautiful but oh so much more than that, laden with meaning! Father God letting His dear children know that all will be well. All is as it should be, right here, right now.

We held hands as one lady prayed aloud. I don’t know the words she spoke but Holy Spirit goosebumps enveloped me while grateful tears filled my eyes. Holy Trinity, One God, present for sure in our cozy corner of Refugee Centre. 

That is what our God is like!!

‘May He walk with us all the days of our lives. His light shine in us. His words make us whole. The kindness, love, joy He shows us through other people, may we give it to others. May the Lord be with us all the days of our lives’. (Pendant ladies). (Text message)

‘Jesus said also to the man who had invited Him; “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen, or rich neighbours, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just’. Luke 14:12-14)

‘Everything a baptised Christian does every day, EVERYTHING!! should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy’. (Doris Day)

‘To join Jesus army is to do the corporal and spiritual works of mercy’. (Bishop Robert Barron)