30 days to inspiration
May 20, 2009 | community, daily ramblings, faith
I see and hear a lot of negative stuff. Don’t we all? For the next 30 days I want to shift my focus to people who are really making a difference.
This morning I watched a documentary about a woman who started an outreach called Magdalene. It is a ministry to prostitutes and addicts. In the documentary, one woman after another shared their stories. Most had lost their children. Most had lost family relationships with parents and siblings. All of them had given up hope.
They told about an ordinary woman who approached them on the street — not to condemn, but to offer hope and tangible help.
She had found a house, a charming big house that needed paint and TLC and she made it a home for ten women.
One women said when she saw the matching sheets, the flowered comforter, the kitchen stocked with food, that she started crying. “I forgot what home looked like,” she said.
Against all statistics, almost all of the women who have stayed at Magdalene have overcome their addictions, learned a trade (accounting, making bath and beauty products, etc.), and transitioned to a new life.
Why? Because one woman showed them hope.
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Praise the Lord for such an amazing ministry- imagine how much easier it then became to introduce these women to the grace of Jesus! Looking forward to this series!!
May 20th, 2009 at 10:25 am