I’m joining with other writers to work through Graffiti Summer Study and Do with Alene Snodgrass.
God called Moses and he offered excuses culminating in,”O Lord, please send someone else to do it.” Not only did Moses feel inadequate he had also just killed an Egyptian who was beating one of his own people, a Hebrew.
How many of your thoughts focus on your inadequacies? How many focus on your past failures and weaknesses?
Exodus 4:2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.
We all have something in our hands.
There are broken people all around us. It’s time we stop for a moment and notice
what is in our hand that we can use
God gave me a love for writing, I can use this gift he placed in my hands.
I have friends who are encouragers, organizers, leaders, prayer warriors and truth tellers.
They use these gifts with they have been given by; capturing moments, summoning life through career, tutoring refugees, raising families, teaching children, speaking against injustice.
Sometimes (almost always) I feel small like Moses, insignificant and incapable. I look down at my hands. The one thing I can always do is extend them to others. Even if they feel empty, there is something to offer… just their presence is enough. Being broken for others means showing up with an open heart. God will use that compassion.
How can you serve the broken with what’s in your hand?
