Several times a year, I get the PRIVILEGE to serve with a group of people at the Austin Street Homeless Shelter in Downtown Dallas. A lunch. A simple lunch of haystacks....fritos, ground beef, shredded cheese, etc...and a few homemade cookies and lemonaide.
Not a big deal, right? Wrong.
The "clients" we serve look like the person buying light bulbs at Home Depot, a lamp at Hobby Lobby or pumping gas at the local Racetrack gas station.
And the gratefulness that flows out of their mouths for this simple meal is worth more than a million bucks to us. They smile...they are grateful....they are loved by God no more and no less than you and me.
And yesterday, we had two young kids join us to serve. They interacted more with our "clients" that many of us adults did....going table to table offering them cookies, a smile and a kind word. This is an experience they won't soon forget...and will help mold them into the adults they one day will be.
Friends, the POWER behind stepping outside of ourselves and helping others is beyond any words I can write in this space. And this mother and grandmother who brought their kids to the homeless shelter and showed them how much sweeter life is when giving rather than receiving, will be rewarded greatly one day.
"I have demonstrated to you how necessary it is to work on behalf of the weak and not exploit them. You’ll not likely go wrong here if you keep remembering that our Master said, ‘You’re far happier giving than getting." Acts 20:35 (The Message)
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