Crossroads by Ken
It can be said that, Life is a pilgrimage, a journey. But we don’t embark on this journey as tourists. We go as seekers, pilgrims, filled with longing for all that is true. A pilgrim is wide eyed and prepared to discover what God has placed on the path before them.
These past two days have taken us out of New Orleans across the causeway to Fair Haven Orphanage. Working with the staff these pilgrims from Fellowship Bible Church served tirelessly. They worked cleaning fixing and tending to every need brought to them. Each day afforded them the opportunity to play with the children and get to know each child’s story better. As an approach to try and climb into the shoes of another, the pilgrims have spent time listening and asking good questions to better understand how to love and befriend the children and to not simply feel sorry for them.
Today they where challenged to choose well at the cross roads of choices, this is the place where we are given a choice on the path we travel, to go in several directions. Like the good Samaritan each pilgrim was challenged to choose well and take care to not step over the one set before them. We are trying to learn what it truly means to love your neighbor. Words are cheap and actions can be contrived but what we do for another is true and authentic.Jesus was always “other focused” and we have been learning to be the one who looks after the others in our world. These pilgrims are nearing the finish line for home yet there is a great desire to learn how to return home without falling back into the everyday life they lived prior to this New Orleans trip.