Morning Thought 4
Thursday 30th Dec 2021
Good morning it was a couple of
months ago that we in Mustard Seed Jersey were blessed by a very generous
donation. The donor’s wishes were that the money should be used to help people
to have a better life in Romania.
So I approached the Romanian social workers that we
have been working with for a number of years and explained that money was
available and that it was to be used to benefit people to give them a better
life and I asked them to make suggestions, with costings.
It felt to us as trustees to
prayerfully consider those requests, some for big projects needing quite large
amounts of money adding a roof or a bathroom to houses, others with a much
smaller requests for home improvement very basic in one case for a woodburning
stove to provide an elderly pensioner heating and cooking facilities
I believe we made wise decisions in
allocating the funds and I have been thrilled in the last fortnight to receive
photographs from Romania showing how some of that money has been used.
Some of the most telling and lovely
photographs is of before and after. Let me share one with you.
The first photograph shows a very
elderly lady supported by two walking sticks standing by a very decrepit stove
in a very dark and dingy basement room. The second photograph shows the same
lady in the same rather dark and dingy basement but with a shining stove that
she could use for cooking and for heating and this time the woman has a radiant
smile on her face.
A few days ago
when I was reading my bible I read from Psalm 68 which talks about God being a
father to the fatherless a defender of widows and orphans how God sets the
lonely into families. I believe Mustard Seed’s work is an example of that in
action.