A Knight's Journey

When our girls were growing up--they were your typical kids.  Messy rooms.  Toys scattered.  After many years of saying "clean your room", whatever habits they adopted in keeping their belongings became part of their normal routines and these habits began to form and stick.   I remember hearing my own mother say repeatedly, "Angie, clean up this room!"  I admit, I would much rather read a book than anything else when I was growing up.  Little did I know then -that if I would just KEEP my room clean, I could read as much as I wanted "guilt-free".   Isn't it hard to enjoy something you love doing if there are undone things surrounding you? I cannot count the times they would proclaim it clean--and I would go do the "inspection" before play could resume--and on the surface...it looked mostly clean.  But open the closet door--or look under the bed--and there would be all the things hurriedly shoved out of sight.  I guess that was all they worried

What I’ve learned in saying “yes”—it automatically sets me up for some trials.    the YES is always worth it.   When I was about 48 years old, God began to stir my heart as I had never felt before.  I had been a christian for many years—and had done many things to serve God inside the church walls—from toilets and trash--to the cemetery and grass.  We had taught Sunday school for years and sang in the choir; nursing home ministry and often volunteering to help in various events.  In venturing out into so many areas, I learned which ones I felt especially drawn to and continued. We loved being at the church and with our family of believers.  But this was the beginning of a new season and I felt Him calling me beyond the walls.   The real Church serves OUTSIDE the walls.  He began showing me that. Jesus gave us examples throughout His earthly life of "how-to-serve".   The story in the Bible of the "woman at the well" has drawn me more times than I can count for so man