"This is the purpose of goods, for the hungry to be fed, the naked clothed, the weeping comforted." ❤️
Beautiful reflection.
I think about this regularly. We host a weekly open invite community dinner in our small home. Over the last eight years it's grown from throwing in an oven pizza for two or three friends stopping over before Bible study, to 15-30 adults and 3-10 kids each week. I cook base dishes like rice and beans and pasta, so per unit cost is lower, but it's still an investment for us, in money and time. I spend one day a week cooking now just and we set up tables and chairs the night before. We're not going into debt or being irresponsible, though investing in ministry is almost always irresponsible in the eyes of the world. It's hard to pull my head out of worldly lines of thought sometimes. Then I think of how absurdly God has blessed our little openness to use our home for growing the kingdom!
We've been so blessed to have Christian community grow in our home! Three now married couples met at our house, converts, reverts, new friends, connections made, jobs found... What is money for, right? But to store up treasures in heaven.
I prayed for a big family and we've experienced infertility, we're blessed to have two children. But God gave us a big family in our house every week!
1) The hand-decorated labels on your storage bins. I wonder if that rich man might have been better off if he'd decorated and labeled so.
2) The link to Chesterton about the Church's balancing acts at the end of your second paragraph. It's a perfect-sized dose of Chesterton. Just how I like to take him too, in small spoonfuls. Which brings me around to number three.
3) Baby's first spoonful of oatmeal in the morning - lighting up the deep-down purpose of worldly goods. In a parable, no less. I loved that paragraph!
Also, ". . . living lightly can keep us light of heart." Snappy line, that. I guess it makes four. Four things I like in this post.
"This is the purpose of goods, for the hungry to be fed, the naked clothed, the weeping comforted." ❤️
Beautiful reflection.
I think about this regularly. We host a weekly open invite community dinner in our small home. Over the last eight years it's grown from throwing in an oven pizza for two or three friends stopping over before Bible study, to 15-30 adults and 3-10 kids each week. I cook base dishes like rice and beans and pasta, so per unit cost is lower, but it's still an investment for us, in money and time. I spend one day a week cooking now just and we set up tables and chairs the night before. We're not going into debt or being irresponsible, though investing in ministry is almost always irresponsible in the eyes of the world. It's hard to pull my head out of worldly lines of thought sometimes. Then I think of how absurdly God has blessed our little openness to use our home for growing the kingdom!
We've been so blessed to have Christian community grow in our home! Three now married couples met at our house, converts, reverts, new friends, connections made, jobs found... What is money for, right? But to store up treasures in heaven.
I prayed for a big family and we've experienced infertility, we're blessed to have two children. But God gave us a big family in our house every week!
Three things I particularly like here:
1) The hand-decorated labels on your storage bins. I wonder if that rich man might have been better off if he'd decorated and labeled so.
2) The link to Chesterton about the Church's balancing acts at the end of your second paragraph. It's a perfect-sized dose of Chesterton. Just how I like to take him too, in small spoonfuls. Which brings me around to number three.
3) Baby's first spoonful of oatmeal in the morning - lighting up the deep-down purpose of worldly goods. In a parable, no less. I loved that paragraph!
Also, ". . . living lightly can keep us light of heart." Snappy line, that. I guess it makes four. Four things I like in this post.