Monday: Physical Therapy Lucy
Kobe Basketball practice
Tuesday: Speech Therapy Lucy
Faith, Kobe, Luke basketball camp
Meeting at coffee shop downtown
So, this morning I woke up and I knew....PT with Lucy, basketball practice for Kobe, and a few other things thrown in for good measure.
I sort-of had a plan in my head how the day would progress.
COFFEE...eggs for Lucy....PT...run and get toilet paper...etc...
But you see the past few weeks a picture from Facebook has been hanging in my brain.
You see, this is a picture of some friends we know through The Raining Season. Luke is on the far left in the gray t-shirt. His wife, Rachel, was with me on my last trip to Africa. We connected immediately. You see, Luke is a physical therapist. He works on people's bones and muscles and tendons and cartilage and such (I am guessing here...I don't know all the PT terminology!). Anyway, several years ago he heard about a little girl named Lucy in Sierra Leone and he paid for, donated, and shipped a pediatric walker to help her take her first steps.
And next to Luke, sortof hidden in the back, is Jason. Jason is a board member for The Raining Season. I don't even actually know what his "real" job is, but I know he is amazing at computer stuff and really funny! His wife Wendy and I became friends because we are both educators and care deeply about the reading, writing and 'rithmatic of the kiddos in Sierra Leone.
Oh wait...I got side-tracked...this blog post is about schedules...
So...Monday...Monday morning...I wake up and I have a schedule...what will my day bring...what will I accomplish...who will I meet and greet?
Well, back to the picture...you see the man in the middle?
The one with what appears to be soaking wet clothes?
Well you see one day last week he woke up too. He woke up in a remote village in West Africa. He woke up among people who just like him had been mainly exposed to the Muslim faith. He probably had an agenda for his day...eating mango, playing with chimpanzees, killing a wild boar (I am kidding!) I don't really know what his day's plans were, but none-the-less I am sure he had some.
But you see...his day was interrupted!
His schedule took a detour.
The plans for the day were put on the back-burner.
Because you see, Jason and Luke, along with a few others from their small church in Kansas City, decided to divert from their normal schedules. They decided to step out of their comfort zones, leave their families, take their hard earned vacation time, and invade into this man's schedule.
They didn't plan for it that day either.
They were simply obeying the call...
The call we have all been given...
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy."
Matthew 28:19
You see, they didn't know his name.
They didn't know his family.
They didn't even speak his language.
(But God did!)
They simply swayed from their schedule,
obeyed the call of our Savior,
and shared Christ that day!
And there will be one more person in heaven because of it.
So...back to schedules...
Can you imagine this man's day on that particular day?
His plans...mango eating, chimpanzee playing...whatever...they were all interrupted by our Savior...to meet white men from Kansas City, Missouri, who didn't speak his language, but who come bearing the name and grace of our Savior!
Wow...just keep thinking about that!
What an awesome thing!
Schedules interrupted!!! Souls saved!
Oh Dear Lord...thank you for Jason and Luke and the others who were with them that day. Thank you for their courage to step up. Thank you for their boldness with your gospel. Thank you for the testimony to us. Thank you Lord for this picture...this picture that has popped into my brain every morning since I first viewed it....for it reminds me to interrupt my schedule for you....to share you...because it might just be the interruption someone needs today!! Dear Lord, thank you for this man. This man I don't even know who has brought me faith in you, faith in your salvation, faith in your provision to guide us to all nations, all peoples. Oh Lord...I simply stand in awe today...and for that, well...thank you!
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