Good evening and Eric’s Promise 2027 continued:
I was at a food pantry today and mentioned to the volunteer what was in my fridge. I said, 4 slices of bread and she responded with her needs and her problems with Medicare. She didn’t give a second thought to what I was genuinely saying and went straight to what her problems were instead.
I don’t understand that way of thinking anymore. I used to. Self absorbed thinking. That was until God said, Stop. Lead. Stop following the crowd. Stop following people who try to blend in. Stop being someone you are not just to be able to live. Trust me, He said.
The volunteer then proceeded to act like she cared and told me to apply for a substitute teacher job with Kelly Education. She said, the kids will cuss you out everyday but Good Luck!
Seriously? This is what spurned the $5.00 Holy Move from God in my entire walk last year for my brother’s legacy, Eric’s Promise. God had me meet a woman in Georgia, a former teacher, who left her job because a boy threatened to shoot her. The boy brought in a guitar case with a gun in it and she had missed the meeting. This was all handled by the school and authorities but she will never be a teacher again. How many teachers have this same story or one that they refuse to tell out of fear? Truthbumps. Goosebumps. Too many.
The point being, the children, The anger. The teachers. The safety in our schools, businesses, churches, malls and world. Safety first, God says. You lack nothing, God says. Use what I gave you, God says.
This world is in great need of a perspective shift. We need to do more small acts of love for the people God places in our environments, at God’s Time and in His instruction. I always wait for God to instruct me because that saying is true. Where God guides, God provides. He calls it, “Same Day Delivery.”
Very rarely will someone ever tell you how you impact them, even if it is in the most positive way. We have to Trust the power of kindness and our acts of faith.
Thank you.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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