Collecting Thoughts - All in A Day's Work
This has been a very interesting week - especially working at Inspirations.
Tuesday evening a lady came into the store looking for a little Willowtree ornament called "Brothers". It is a big brother reaching down placing his arms around a little brother. She proceeded to tell me why she wanted this ornament. She was a teacher and her class wanted to give a gift to one of her students. The "little" boy had discovered his 17 year old brother dead. He had committed suicide. ...We cried together.
Last evening I had a gentleman in the store for an hour or more just browsing through books. I chatted with him a long time. He had been to Bible College - even had his degree. He was an art student as well. He loves the arts. He is struggling "big time" with his faith. He shared some of his journey with me. He had become disillusioned with Christians and admitted to me that he is very cynical. ... I shared with him that I could understand why. He had got involved in wicca and lost his marriage. In the past year he has remarried his wife and has been trying to get back on track spiritually. It has been tough. He was looking for books to read to help him. I suggested several but he is still struggling to "believe". I realized how important it is - even though we may have "studied" and have all the head knowledge there is still a genuine experience we need. Even though we may have experienced, we still need to daily commit our lives to the Lord to remain strong. We need to 'Finish' well. Wow!
Then I had a fun group of senior high girls looking for a Bible study to do together. They were quiet but searching together. I realized how important it is for us to have others to encourage us, to walk the journey with us, to cheer one another along.
At the end of my shift a lady came in to buy a Bible. You would not believe the number of people that are totally illiterate to even knowing anything about the Bible. This lady told me "I have this Bible at home but it has another book in the back of it. I'm having trouble understanding this Bible." I asked what version it was and she thought it was the King James Version. Anyway I realized the "other book in the back of her Bible" was the New Testament. I showed her a Bible and gave her a quick "Bible" knowledge lesson. I taught her about the different versions that scholars are always working to keep the Bible at a current understandable readable level for us to understand just as the dictionary is constantly being updated with words that 10 years ago were not around - like double double. I just had a blast teaching this dear lady (I'm talking 30-35 years old) some Bible basics. I told her to read a couple of different versions and decide on which one she wanted by the one that she could understand the best and the one that seemed to speak directly to her heart. Guess which one she chose? The Message! It was so exciting.
I absolutely LOVE my job at Inspirations. There is always something different there and it is so FUN to help people discover. Come visit me some Tuesday or Thursday evening and I'll see how I can help you. OR see how you'll help me!
Have an inspirational day!
Tuesday evening a lady came into the store looking for a little Willowtree ornament called "Brothers". It is a big brother reaching down placing his arms around a little brother. She proceeded to tell me why she wanted this ornament. She was a teacher and her class wanted to give a gift to one of her students. The "little" boy had discovered his 17 year old brother dead. He had committed suicide. ...We cried together.
Last evening I had a gentleman in the store for an hour or more just browsing through books. I chatted with him a long time. He had been to Bible College - even had his degree. He was an art student as well. He loves the arts. He is struggling "big time" with his faith. He shared some of his journey with me. He had become disillusioned with Christians and admitted to me that he is very cynical. ... I shared with him that I could understand why. He had got involved in wicca and lost his marriage. In the past year he has remarried his wife and has been trying to get back on track spiritually. It has been tough. He was looking for books to read to help him. I suggested several but he is still struggling to "believe". I realized how important it is - even though we may have "studied" and have all the head knowledge there is still a genuine experience we need. Even though we may have experienced, we still need to daily commit our lives to the Lord to remain strong. We need to 'Finish' well. Wow!
Then I had a fun group of senior high girls looking for a Bible study to do together. They were quiet but searching together. I realized how important it is for us to have others to encourage us, to walk the journey with us, to cheer one another along.
At the end of my shift a lady came in to buy a Bible. You would not believe the number of people that are totally illiterate to even knowing anything about the Bible. This lady told me "I have this Bible at home but it has another book in the back of it. I'm having trouble understanding this Bible." I asked what version it was and she thought it was the King James Version. Anyway I realized the "other book in the back of her Bible" was the New Testament. I showed her a Bible and gave her a quick "Bible" knowledge lesson. I taught her about the different versions that scholars are always working to keep the Bible at a current understandable readable level for us to understand just as the dictionary is constantly being updated with words that 10 years ago were not around - like double double. I just had a blast teaching this dear lady (I'm talking 30-35 years old) some Bible basics. I told her to read a couple of different versions and decide on which one she wanted by the one that she could understand the best and the one that seemed to speak directly to her heart. Guess which one she chose? The Message! It was so exciting.
I absolutely LOVE my job at Inspirations. There is always something different there and it is so FUN to help people discover. Come visit me some Tuesday or Thursday evening and I'll see how I can help you. OR see how you'll help me!
Have an inspirational day!
posted by ladyyvonne | 9:48 AM
2 Comments:
your such an "inspiration" to me! I love how you love.
What an amazing day! Your words are such an encouragement to me! I promise that once i am back at home i will continue to read them! May you be blessed and may the things that you touch go well! Love you lots!
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