he's there

today was a good day.

i saw the most beautiful thing in the world today.

i got to see a group of eighteen people gather together to meet the needs of a community. i got to see these people get dirty, nasty and sweaty in the name of the King. i got to see people fall down, get hurt and keep going so that someone else besides themselves might benefit from it.

it was hot. it was tiring. and we were in a dirty, nasty apartment complex. we did lawn work, cleaned up scraps, gardening, and anything we could to bring life back to this broken down area. but i felt closer to jesus there than i feel at most church services. there was nobody there to thank those who came out, but they did it with smiles on their faces. they were in a place that could make a clown sad, but they shone like christ anyway.

its funny, i always get it in my head that im going to take jesus to the people who need him, and i end up falling apart because of how close jesus feels at those moments. i think there is as much benefit to us as followers of the King, as there is to those whose needs we are meeting. we can get so desensitized to jesus when we aren't answering his call to love.

go and love, and find jesus in dirty and nasty places.

in the places where you get dirt under your finger nails.

in the broken and lonely places.

in the tired and hurting places.

he's there.

i promise.....