“Anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant” (Mark 10:43).
A pastor tells of a visit he once made to an old woman whom he had known for years. She was a kind and generous person who had devoted her life to the service of God and her fellow human beings. Over the years her hands had become rough and calloused from long hours of scrubbing tables and pots and pans as a volunteer worker in a shelter for the homeless. She confided to her visitor that now that her life was running out she was troubled about what she could say to the Lord when she saw Him. It had never been easy for her to express herself in words. “I can barely read and write,” she said. “I won’t know what to say or how to say it.” The pastor tried to comfort her by reminding her that the Lord would be more than pleased to know about all…
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