Rev Bill

I admit that I’ve felt distracted recently with everything going on with the move, things not going exactly “as I had planned”, feeling that I don’t have time to do everything that “needs to be done”, and so on.

I found this reading by Henri Nouwen this morning that really spoke to me:

We belong to a generation that wants to see the results of our work. We want to be productive and see with our own eyes what we have made. But that is not the way of God’s Kingdom. Often our witness for God does not lead to tangible results. Jesus himself died as a failure on a cross. There was no success there to be proud of. Still, the fruitfulness of Jesus’ life is beyond any human measure. As faithful witnesses of Jesus we have to trust that our lives too will be fruitful, even though we cannot see their fruit. The fruit of our lives may be visible only to those who live after us.

What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.

What matters is not so much if everything gets done when we want it to be done or even how we want it done — but if we love.

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