02.15.08
ON TAKING A STOOP
Dear Friends:
Lenten greetings! I trust that you are making it through the Lenten season and allowing for a good couple of stoops in your life. I’m here pictured getting down on my knees with one fine young man, Karl. Getting down on my knees puts me at eye level with Karl, and allows me to look a little more closely at his world. Getting down on my knees has a way of also getting me out of my normal world, and allowing new opportunities to bubble into my spiritual journey.
Getting on our knees may happen in prayer, it may happen when I’m looking for something, or when I’m serving. Jesus got on his knees didn’t he? Remember that night at the Last Supper? Nobody appeared ready to wash the disciples’ feet that night, until Jesus took a basin and a towel and proceeded to take a stoop and kneel, and indulged himself in service. Then afterward, he called all his disciples to do the same. Get involved in serving and be willing to take a stoop and kneel. My own experience with this dynamic of stoop and kneel is always full of joy and purpose, for I find then in many ways, I am about the work of the Lord.
How about you? What do you find in the stoop and kneel? I trust that you will find Jesus. For Jesus also says, “As you did it to the least of these, my brethren, you did it unto me.” Lenten blessings. Stop by. The light’s on, the coffee’s fresh.
Pastor Don
