Renewal of a Personal Discipline
Those of you who were in church last Sunday saw a tin church bank that was at my meal place in my grandmother’s home from my earliest days there. In it I placed a penny at each meal to help feed the needy through its contribution to our church. Sunday Carol Kreamer told me that there are many places in the world where seven of those pennies would provide a meal.
Ed Odom did the math and showed us that if each of our giving families would share seven dollars a week more we could pay our apportionments in full thereby assisting all to whom the United Methodist Church ministers. His discourse set me to thinking that I need to renew the spiritual discipline my grandmother had so loving taught me. So….
I commit to Webster Hills and the United Methodist Church through her apportionments to set aside one dollar every time I eat lunch and that I will pray for the wellness of those who, though unknown to me, are also children of God and who will be touched by this additional gift. This I do in addition to the $50 a month additional commitment I made to the apportionments last Sunday. I hope you’ll join me in this spiritual discipline. If you do, would please tell me so we may share in the joy of this kinship?
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16Apr
Posted by scott @ 6:28 am
