Tomorrow our house parents are going on vacation for 2 1/2 weeks and I have been asked to help "fill in" as a temporary house parent. How cool is that! Another staff member and I will be in charge with making sure the food deliveries come, the garbage is taken out, the cleaning products are fully stocked (although we have a difficulty with keeping things clean in this house), and making sure that the new people who are coming and the old people who are leaving are taken care of. I'm very excited about doing this. This kind of work is where I feel like I can do my best. I like to make sure that others are taken care of and I can't wait to show the new people around the house and neighborhood.
So yesterday I was reading 1 Corinthians 13, the "love" chapter. It's one of my favorite chapters of the Bible..."Love is patient, love is kind....." and so on. When I was reading the first few verses above that section, about how you could have great gifts or powers or whatever, but if you don't have love it's meaningless. Well the part that struck me the most was in verse 2 "if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." Yes I realize that we need love, but what got to me is the "faith that can move mountains" part. I know that my faith is strong and I'm not denying that, but can I move mountains? And all I need is the faith of a mustard seed, but why not strive to have a faith so large it becomes this overwhelming force that pushes any obstacle out of its path? I thought about that all day yesterday and most of today; trying to really understand what it means and why it jumped out at me. I discussed it in my small group today, but I don't think they really understood what I was saying, so I've been thinking about it more this afternoon. I'm curious of others thoughts.
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