Once upon a time lived a girl named, Jessica …
… she never really had too many concerns that her needs wouldn’t be met … she went into most every situation expecting that it would turn out the way she expected, because isn’t that what she thinks she’s entitled to as an American? Well, a middle class American who hasn’t ever had to go without. Well, one day she realized that she is very blessed to say the least. She would like to say that she always remembers this, but she doesn’t. Well, one morning, this morning actually, she had a reminder about the small things in life that we take advantage of …
… she came home for Thanksgiving Break, and to begin her day like most any other she went to take a shower; unfortunately she didn’t take her mother seriously when she said, “I hope there’s hot water.” In Jessica’s little world the hot water is never ending, I mean really, “this is me, this is my middle class American home sheltered from the issues of the world,” she thought until she took that first step and realized that the world isn’t here to make her life comfortable. The world isn’t here to make sure that she has all her needs met, in fact, she is here to meet the needs of others and what better way to realize this then to be shivering in a cold water shower.
She thought to herself that this brings up another fine point, she tolerated this not because she wanted to experience what those less fortunate were feeling, but in fact because she wanted to be presentable. She was so concerned about how she would look that she endured this frightfully cold experience to meet the standards that she has to look a certain way and maintain a certain level of hygiene set forth here in America. “When did life become all about me?” she wondered …
… “Maybe life has always been about me,” she thought … but now her life is going to become about something so much greater, a world bigger than her sheltered lifestyle of comfort, a world where her role isn’t the one whose needs are being met, but the world where she begins to meet the needs of others… not because she has anything to offer the world, but because God has offered her so much that why wouldn’t she go tell the Nations? Why wouldn’t she give up her comfortable lifestyle to go spread the Good News that is found in Jesus Christ?
So maybe this fairytale can still end “Happily Ever After” in the world of cold showers …
…………………………………………………………………… THE END!
