Take your Dash and turn it into a smile...
Dear Community Family,
Thank you! Another Community Impact (May 16th) with so many lives touched! The Lord has asked us to be his hands and feet and you are reaching out in so many ways! Some of you have have stepped out of your comfort zone and the Lord has blessed you beyond measure.
Saturday morning before we went out to serve I thanked you for your prayers, your condolences, cards and emails. You are truly a special group of people and I love you.
Here is what I shared on Saturday morning…
9 days ago I was in Ohio attending the funeral of my dad. There is nothing in the world that can prepare you for that experience. My dad was born in 1934 and he died in 2009. I stood at the grave site and I was looking at his temporary grave marker. The way that it is written on the tomb stone is 1934 – dash – 2009. That dash represented 74 years…and I’ve been thinking about that dash these past few days. Right now I am in my dash…and so are you.
The day before the funeral, we had a viewing from 5 – 8:00 pm. I didn’t know what to expect, he was 74, a lot of his friends had already passed away, he hadn’t worked in years…who was going to come for the visitation?
When the doors opened at 5…the people came…we stood in a receiving line for 3 hours. The line circled the room, down the hall, out the door and down the side walk…in the rain! The parking lot filled up and people were parking down the street!
In those 3 hours…I experienced some of my dad’s DASH. I was overwhelmed by the stores that I heard, and I’ll never be able to remember them all. That little DASH that represented his life wasn’t quite so little.
The stories that I heard started to sound familiar, they had one of two themes…”Your dad shared Jesus with me…” My dad was a strong stubborn man and it took him a long time to listen to God. He was in his forties when he accepted Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour...and he never stopped talking about it.
And “Your dad helped me out…” The things that my dad did for others weren’t earth shattering things…they were small acts of kindness…but BIG enough to stand in the rain to pay their respects.
Today we are in our Dash, and I have a challenge for you. Let’s take the Dash and turn it into a smile. A smile is a very small act of kindness yet it has great rewards. I want you to smile a lot today and I want you to get other people to smile back!
Thank you for spending your Saturday making a difference in our communtiy!
With much appreciation,
Nancy May
Outreach Director
Community Christian Church
Thank you! Another Community Impact (May 16th) with so many lives touched! The Lord has asked us to be his hands and feet and you are reaching out in so many ways! Some of you have have stepped out of your comfort zone and the Lord has blessed you beyond measure.
Saturday morning before we went out to serve I thanked you for your prayers, your condolences, cards and emails. You are truly a special group of people and I love you.
Here is what I shared on Saturday morning…
9 days ago I was in Ohio attending the funeral of my dad. There is nothing in the world that can prepare you for that experience. My dad was born in 1934 and he died in 2009. I stood at the grave site and I was looking at his temporary grave marker. The way that it is written on the tomb stone is 1934 – dash – 2009. That dash represented 74 years…and I’ve been thinking about that dash these past few days. Right now I am in my dash…and so are you.
The day before the funeral, we had a viewing from 5 – 8:00 pm. I didn’t know what to expect, he was 74, a lot of his friends had already passed away, he hadn’t worked in years…who was going to come for the visitation?
When the doors opened at 5…the people came…we stood in a receiving line for 3 hours. The line circled the room, down the hall, out the door and down the side walk…in the rain! The parking lot filled up and people were parking down the street!
In those 3 hours…I experienced some of my dad’s DASH. I was overwhelmed by the stores that I heard, and I’ll never be able to remember them all. That little DASH that represented his life wasn’t quite so little.
The stories that I heard started to sound familiar, they had one of two themes…”Your dad shared Jesus with me…” My dad was a strong stubborn man and it took him a long time to listen to God. He was in his forties when he accepted Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour...and he never stopped talking about it.
And “Your dad helped me out…” The things that my dad did for others weren’t earth shattering things…they were small acts of kindness…but BIG enough to stand in the rain to pay their respects.
Today we are in our Dash, and I have a challenge for you. Let’s take the Dash and turn it into a smile. A smile is a very small act of kindness yet it has great rewards. I want you to smile a lot today and I want you to get other people to smile back!
Thank you for spending your Saturday making a difference in our communtiy!
With much appreciation,
Nancy May
Outreach Director
Community Christian Church
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