DeColores,

O'Keefe Scallan

Men's Team Selection Chair

Walk 214

Sabine Creek Ranch

Message from the Community Spiritual Director 

"The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."

Matthew 9:37-38

     It was in a communion worship service with a bunch of pastors when the preacher started talking about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  To be honest, we were all about to head to the airport to catch flights back to wherever home is and it was about lunch time.  So the thought of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich sounded pretty good.  We shared in the communion liturgy, receiving a small piece of bread dipped in grape juice, and we returned to our seats.  I don't know about everyone else in the room but I was hungry and, with a long flight looming, I was thinking about peanut butter and jelly.

     The preacher finished with the things he had to say and he stepped behind the altar bringing out an old-fashioned metal lunch pail.  Big enough for one peanut butter and jelly sandwich for sure, but not for the hundreds of us that had gathered there.

     As he started the benediction, something happened.  People started entering the sides of the worship space with BIG baskets.  Inside of those baskets were handmade peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, not the ready-made "uncrustable" kind, but the kind of sandwich that your mom or grandma used to make when you were really little and hungry.  He said, "You need a peanut butter and jelly because you are going to be hungry again and God will be there for you!"

     There are a lot of people around us who are hungry.  Maybe they took communion at your church last Sunday but they are waiting for someone to take the time to share with them something deeper, something more.  Maybe they haven't set foot in a church in years.  They don't remember much about church, God, communion, baptism, or even the bible.  But they are hungry.  And they are waiting for something...

     Jesus said, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."  When was the last time you prayed that God would use you as a laborer?  When was the last time you shared your faith or took the time to prepare a physical or spiritual peanut butter and jelly for someone in your life who is hungry?  The opportunities are all around us and God is there waiting for you.

De Colores!

Stacey Piyakhun

Walk #204, Table of Hannah

Assistant Community Spiritual Director

3 There are a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:

² a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
³ a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
⁴ a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
⁵ a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
⁶ a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
⁷ a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
⁸ a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.  

Prayer:  Loving God, I am reminded that there is a time for everything in life.  Help me to look at each day as a new opportunity to be your servant. Amen

De Colores,

Ruth Dunn

Walk 178, April 2004
Table of Elizabeth

Communications

     I am a huge baseball fan-love the game, love the history of the game, played growing up and as a young man. This has been a tough last couple of weeks for local baseball fans around here because for the second year in a row the Texas Rangers have limped to the finish line in yet one more September swoon, dashing all hopes for a return to World Series glory. 

     Real baseball fans pour their heart and soul into their team-mine happens to be the Houston Astros, and if you weren't aware, they are again the unfortunate owners of the the worst record in major league baseball for the 3^rd straight year, totaling 111 losses this year alone! YET, I still root for them and pull for them with the hope that they will soon turn their fortunes around.

      It is fun as a pasttime to follow our favorite baseball teams, but thankfully our faith is not dependent upon how our favorite team does on the field. Rather, we place our faith in a God who never lets us down! He is our sovereign Lord, the epitome of love, our rock and our redeemer, the alpha and the omega-His word says that "if you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you." Additionally, we are told that if we "trust in the Lord with all our heart and in all our ways acknowledge Him, He will make our paths straight". What wonderful words of assurance!

     For me personally, one of the times in my life when God's love was magnified for me was on my Walk 11 years ago. I encourage you to give the folks in your life that you care about a chance to enjoy this experience-won't you consider sponsoring a Pilgrim for the women's Walk in November or for one of the five Walks scheduled for 2014?

DeColores, 

Kerry M Goad 

Trainning Chair

 Walk #163

 Mt Lebanon

Table of Peter

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