Today's lesson plan was all about "being the body of Christ."
Along with a prayer by St. Theresa of Avila, few paragraphs from their text, a creative team activity, a really cool song by Casting Crowns, and some prayers to the Holy Spirit...I was still feeling like something was missing.
As I stood at the kitchen cupboard, books open, leafing through for just one more thought/idea to pull it all together, my phone rings...God is so AWESOME! And the people who he works through...well they're AWESOME too!
You see, my van wouldn't start last night after the junior high bible study. So I left it parked there in the church parking lot overnight, and called for a tow this morning to our local repair shop. A lovely soul who saw our "big red bus" roll past her window on the back of a flatbed trailer found in her heart to pick up the phone and call.
Without hesitation. Seriously...the van couldn't have even made it the 5 minute drive to the repair shop yet when she'd called.
There she was on the other end of the line asking "What can I do for you today?!" Concerned that I didn't have a way to get kiddos to preschool/kindergarden, or that I might have other errands to run, she dialed me up and offered herself (and her wheels) to help out. Just like that.
Thank you, my friend for being the perfect example of how each one of us is called to be "The Body of Christ" in our world. God Bless!!
Praises to the Holy Spirit for bringing this lesson to life for me, and for allowing me to share the experience with my class.
“Christ has no body now on earth but yours
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about
doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.”
~St. Teresa of Avila
~St. Teresa of Avila
