Celebrate the Call

I enjoyed a great weekend at the Annual Meeting for Arkansas WMU. The theme this year was Celebrate the Call. I was so inspired and amazed by the missionaries that spoke. To hear of their call and being sold out completely to God to do His work is really humbling. I mean, what do I do that is so important for Him and His kingdom? It really has made me start thinking about what God wants from me. One thing I know He wants is for me to love like He does. In 2008-2010, the WMU emphasis is Called to Love. For the next two years we will be challenged as believers to love like God has called us to. He really reinforced this concept to me when I got home from the Annual Meeting. My 5 year old daughter, Elizabeth was in the kitchen when I got home. I was not home more than 5 minutes when she told me she wanted to make cards for the nursing home (or nursery home as she called it). She started to draw pictures of money inside of the card because she thought they were poor and needed money. She was about to write "I will give you money" until I explained that they were not poor, they just needed someone to take care of them all the time. So she wrote " I will give you" and then she sat there awhile and thought about what she could give them. Then she said "I know, I will give you love". About that time I was looking over the new WMU material and noticed the theme Called to Love. I thought, she's got it! I didn't even have to tell her. Oh, the faith of a child! That's all God asks is for us to have a childlike faith to follow Him. This is one example I will never forget.