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PUTTING YOUR BEST FEET FORWARD

The Human Care Committee is diligently preparing for the 2011 Peoria LWML Convention. They are focusing their efforts on providing more human care ideas and resources for you to learn about and use, sharing inspiration and enthusiasm for service through human care projects and events, and being the “place” to find and share great ideas.

In the secular world, helping others in the community is the goal of many fine organizations. People who participate in those organizations are called VOLUNTEERS and usually work on their own terms at their own convenience. However, in the Christian community, human care is serving others in love by being a SERVANT. It means ministering to others, sharing Christ’s love and light, and being obedient and sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s leading wherever and whenever the Lord calls us to serve.

Look through any issue of the Lutheran Woman’s Quarterly and you will marvel at the many articles telling of what our women are doing in the “Lutheran Women in Action” section. It certainly appears that LWML women serve the Lord with gladness! But have you ever wondered about how many other things our women do that don’t get publicized? LWML has many true, humble servants who follow Christ’s example and whose service often goes unnoticed.

Scripture tells us “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…who made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant” (Phil. 2:5-6) and “When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret” (Matt. 6:3-4). It is apparent that reward and acknowledgment are not important to the Lord or to us.

So, where does that lead us? To more scripture verses, of course! A search for “feet” in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible resulted in 251 references to feet in the scriptures, 174 in the Old Testament and 77 in the New Testament. That can lead a person to the conclusion that feet are pretty important. In Matthew 28:19, Jesus says “Go therefore…” How do we go? With our feet! In Hebrews 12:1 we are told, “…let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith…” Again, our feet are necessary! Is it any wonder that this year’s LWML Prayer Service is entitled “Beautiful Feet?” Beauty, they say is in the eye of the beholder. We who in faith both behold and believe that Jesus is our “Beautiful Savior” not only see the beauty in Jesus’ uncomely feet but find our feet, too, somehow shaped by His.

Beautiful feet look like Jesus’ feet – they are dusty and worn and tired from spending yourself for people – standing to cook and iron and clean, stopping to notice and stooping to care for those in need, at home, down the block, at work, in the community, and for others in far way lands. So, with our feet bare or shod, let’s look at these feet of ours that (strangely enough) are an integral part of human care.

This committee’s previous article focused on our hands. Follow us now to the Human Care Ideas tab to see what Christ’s feet and our feet working together can do to bring a little care to all. LET’S BE SERVANTS!

Ann Marie Bollas

Member Human Care Committee