Mission

It begins when we listen for God

at work in places completely foreign to us.

These locations might be

right outside our door,

at a time of day different from

the ones we normally venture out.

They may be across town,

in places we wouldn't travel on purpose,

 or across the globe,

in places that, by our own ignorance,

strike fear into our hearts.

God will not fit in a pocket

or a suitcase; needs neither

to be delivered to nor

rescued from any place.

God simply needs to be found.

When we arrive at any place

that is not home -

and perhaps often at home, too -

our initial task should be

to discern all of the ways and

places in which God is already laboring.

Until we do that, and find

the humility to offer the fullness

of ourselves to that which God

is already doing and desires,

mission will completely elude us.

© 2013 Todd Jenkins