servanthood
i was reading yesterday's daily bread and the same really reflected onto me about my situation some time bk.
True Sacrifice
Teenagers amaze me. So many of them love life with grand passion and face it with unrelenting optimism. Sometimes, they demonstrate the Christian life in ways adults can only hope to emulate.
Such is the case with Carissa, a teen who loves soccer, basketball, friends, family and jesus. In 2000, her mohter was diagnosed with cancer. Carissa was just 12 years old but she began helping to care for her mom.
During the next few years, Carissa often fed her mom, dressed her and helped her do anything she couldnt do for herself. "it was so hard to learn". she said, "Can you imagine, a mother, and daughter literally changing roles? i truely learned how to be a humble servant.
Sometimes, while her friends were out having fun, Carissa was helping her dad to take care of her mom. She continued to do so until the summer 2004 when Carissa and her family said goodbye to Mom for the last time. As Carisa puts it, "God took her home and made her perfect".
quoted from RCB's daily bread 16 March 2006
This indeed brought out what i hav felt when my mom suffered a stroke in year 2004. I was totally shattered and torn apart. My mom used to be the housewife of the family. I didnt know that there be no hot water to make even a glass of milo without her. i miss dinner being laid on the table when i returned from wk. Instead, i had to be running to the market, bathing her and doing tasks for her which she cant fulfil now.
truely, it is a changing of roles for me and my mama. However, via all these, i knew that it was the LOVE i had for my mama when i did all these for all. It was also her LOVE for me previsouly when she changed my nappies and all.
Praise the Lord for waking me up from my dreams... i wanna be able to serve Him just like how i serve me mama.
True Sacrifice
Teenagers amaze me. So many of them love life with grand passion and face it with unrelenting optimism. Sometimes, they demonstrate the Christian life in ways adults can only hope to emulate.
Such is the case with Carissa, a teen who loves soccer, basketball, friends, family and jesus. In 2000, her mohter was diagnosed with cancer. Carissa was just 12 years old but she began helping to care for her mom.
During the next few years, Carissa often fed her mom, dressed her and helped her do anything she couldnt do for herself. "it was so hard to learn". she said, "Can you imagine, a mother, and daughter literally changing roles? i truely learned how to be a humble servant.
Sometimes, while her friends were out having fun, Carissa was helping her dad to take care of her mom. She continued to do so until the summer 2004 when Carissa and her family said goodbye to Mom for the last time. As Carisa puts it, "God took her home and made her perfect".
quoted from RCB's daily bread 16 March 2006
This indeed brought out what i hav felt when my mom suffered a stroke in year 2004. I was totally shattered and torn apart. My mom used to be the housewife of the family. I didnt know that there be no hot water to make even a glass of milo without her. i miss dinner being laid on the table when i returned from wk. Instead, i had to be running to the market, bathing her and doing tasks for her which she cant fulfil now.
truely, it is a changing of roles for me and my mama. However, via all these, i knew that it was the LOVE i had for my mama when i did all these for all. It was also her LOVE for me previsouly when she changed my nappies and all.
Praise the Lord for waking me up from my dreams... i wanna be able to serve Him just like how i serve me mama.
posted by PrEciOuS @ 12:59 pm
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