In a Funk

Is it worse when you know that you are in a funk and then you don't do anything about it? Get to bed at a reasonable time. Just don't watch TV and play on the computer. Figure out cheap ways myself out of the house. And so, I do have Lowe Lane that I can get out of the house and spend the afternoon helping. I think that I have written about it before, but it's a realize that you don't have to get on a plane and go on a mission trip to help others and hear from God. I have been helping Patty put the food on the plates. It lets me feel like I am helping and it takes some work off of her. Then during the down time, I speak slowly to her in English and she speaks slowly in Spanish.

Mom gets a bunch of free things from Walmart. Especially after the holidays are over. She was given a HUGE box of different sized bubbles and chalk. I went through it last night and brought it to Lowe Lane. The other little girls opened up the small bubbles and put them in groups of colors. When the kids left, they took whichever color they wanted to. When I was leaving, I saw about 4 kids playing outside in the dirt. They also were playing with the bubbles and I could see the them blowing them.

Leaving and now it makes me think of Matthew's sermon on Sunday on Generosity. It was about tithing, but I also was touched by his words, his call to action to look at how we are generous . The thing that got me, my heart, was why we do the things we do. Why we give to others. I wondered why I liked helping at Lowe Lane so much. Was it just to talk about what I am doing, how many days I have been there, or it it about the kids? There wasn't a bunch of kids getting lunch today. Another local church has been doing a VBS outreach for the kids. We heard that they give out snacks or lunch so maybe that's why it's been so slow.

There was one young boy, maybe middle school that brought his two young brother and sister. The two year old brother had to be coaxed in and then he didn't eat his lunch. New people might have scared him. The little girls were excited to pick out what color bubbles they wanted. I wonder what tomorrow will bring there.

Proverbs 31: 20

She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy.