Inspiration

"To pray, 'Thy will be done,' I must be willing, if the answer requires it, that my will be undone."

- Elizabeth Elliot

There was a farmer who sold a pound of butter to the baker.

One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see if he was getting a pound. He found that he was not. This angered him and he took the farmer to court.

The judge asked the farmer if he was using any measure. The farmer replied, "Your Honor, I am primitive. I don't have a proper measure, but I do have a scale." 

The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?" 

The farmer replied "Your Honor, long before the baker started buying butter from me, I have been buying a pound loaf of bread from him. Every day when the baker brings the bread, I put it on the scale and give him the same weight in butter. If anyone is to be blamed, it is the baker."

"In our world full of strangers, estranged from their own past, culture and country, from their neighbors, friends and family, we witness a painful search for a hospitable place where life can be lived without fear and where community can be found.

It is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings."

- Henri Nouwen

Imagine yourself walking along The High street of life and each of the shop fronts has something to entice you in:

The Materialism shop offers you all the creature comforts you could ever want, but they must be returned, left right where they are when you come to the end of the street.

There are many different kinds of relationship shops that you may hop in and out of, but they may also throw you out at a moments notice and each one may leave it’s own individual scar.