Gratefulness

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is a story from John Wesley's Journal that I wanted to share.

John Wesley had a conversation with a porter who opened a new door to the spiritual awakening that would happen to him some years in the future. The man proved to be the first truly grateful person he had ever met. 

While the porter had only one coat and had consumed nothing all day but a drink of water, his heart still over flowed with praise to God. John remarked, “You thank God when you have nothing to wear, nothing to eat, and no bed to lie upon. What else do you thank Him for?”

 The man answered, “I thank Him, that He has given me my life and being, a heart to love Him, and a desire to serve Him.”From this testimony, John realized there was something more to following Jesus than he had ever experienced before—and this was something he wanted.

William James Roop

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

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Thank You For The Fleas

Hello Everyone.  Praise the Lord!

Here is a commonly told story about a great lady.

While in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom and her sister, Betsy dealt with dreadful conditions. 

This women’s labor camp “dorms” were crammed into three high trough like sleeping barracks with rancid hay as their bed. 

The cramped conditions and lack of basic sanitation lead to a lice and massive infestation of fleas.

Corrie wondered how they could endure such a dreadful place.

Betsy prayed and told her sister they must “give thanks in all circumstances”.   

But the filth and the fleas? 

Corrie wondered How she could possibly ever be thankful for the lice and the fleas?

Several weeks later, one of the supervisors was called in their barracks to view something Betsy was working on.

The supervisor refused because the place was crawling with fleas.

Betsy then reminded her sister that it was the fleas that had allowed them so much freedom to form a bond with and pray and teach about Jesus to their entire barrack with little infringement from their captors because neither the supervisors or guards wanted to be in their barracks because of the lice and the fleas.

This is when Corrie realized how she could be thankful even for a flea. 

Every time I read this section of the true story “The Hiding Place”, I’m so humbled by the raw and real way God used these amazing, brave sisters in such a horrific situation.

He even used the fleas.

What challenge or difficulty have you found gratitude in that you never thought you could?

By Corrie Ten Boom

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Brother Roop teaches the Bible

Books by William Roop