BLOG 2/4/13. A MEDITATION FOR DISCOURAGED MISSIONERS
A week ago, at the gathering of the Christian community, I had a brief conversation over coffee with a chap who was feeling a bit insignificant in the church’s mission since, as he stated it: he only was a truck driver for a delivery service. I have been reflecting on how sad it is that we glamorize the more public professional missionaries, and do not realize that all of God’s sons and daughters are called to be agents of Light wherever they live and operate. I want to share this meditation of mine, that came to me in a time of discouragement about a decade ago, partly provoked by a closing soliloquy of Ransom’s at the end of C. S. Lewis’ Perelandra.
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A MEDITATION
I am not some other real or imagined saint, …
I am myself in Christ, unique child of my Father,
Not somehow, somewhere,
Not when or if,
Not there and then …
But here and now,
these circumstances,
these persons,
this place and this moment.
This is when and where
I am to be the very glory of God,
God’s enchanted, truly human person.
This, then, is a sacred time and place,
This moment, in which I find myself.
It will never return. Life is today.
Come, Holy Spirit!
Hallowed be Thy Name.
– © Robert Thornton Henderson. 1/16/05 –
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Nobody else has the daily encounters, opportunities, engagements and personal conversations that you and I do. These are all unique in the mission of God.
“In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit.” Go for it!
Peace.
