greetings!
advent has been awesome this year!
Jesus showed up again today -- another "salvation sighting"...
i was at the hub [the tampa underground warehouse] for the thursday night banquet [our opportunity to serve the poor of our city by feeding them a free hot meal] -- a load of folks showed up tonight for the meal...
so many hungry people...
as we were dishing up the food, i prepared a takeout plate for one of my poorest hospice patients -- BR -- who is staying at a rundown motel on the sex strip in the central city area of tampa [nebraska avenue]...
[BR is only 49 -- already a grandmother several times over -- dying of cancer in her breast, brain, lungs and bones...]
she lost her section 8 apartment awhile back -- it takes almost all her monthly check just for staying off the street in this suspect [and seedy] motel -- not enough money left for food...
i was talking to a friend from the underground [our church] who is a ministry leader for the banquet -- he and his community had been praying about BR's plight -- while we were serving together tonight, he asked if she might like to move into their home since they had an empty room...
what a gesture of love -- two families living together in this home with a spare bedroom -- willing to share with a person in need...
in his eyes -- i saw another Jesus sighting...
JS rode with me to deliver the food to BR -- they talked for awhile and set up a time to show her the room...
i saw a glimmer of hope in her eyes...
there it was -- i saw it again -- a Jesus sighting...
i am so blessed...
may the Lord always give us eyes to see and ears to hear -- the beauty and wonder of Jesus who is our salvation...
i love these ongoing, inspiring and humbling glimpses of Jesus...
have a blessed advent...
guy
may we all see Jesus in some way tomorrow...
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