Water Your Worth

This was the response I received from another mom when she heard that I (we) took care of homes and pets. I think she was trying to find some “in” to the conversation as she was sharing with me that she had done that also a few times but it sat in me strange as she said this response to me twice in this casual meeting at a closing of a group.

I have been thinking on this and my immediate response in my mind was, ‘there has never been a time in my sitting where that was anything I thought of.’ It actually made me feel uncomfortable and since this was a Christ following mom group I have been bringing it up every now and then to God to process why it bothered me. I mean why should I care if that is what another person’s interest in caring for another person’s home was? And this is what happened right before starting to write this, I got the revelation.

I don’t see these as opportunities to pretend but opportunities of service while also receiving housing and food for my child and I. I know that God places me in homes to help Him with something that the home, the owner and/or the pets need that I am fit to give. I also don’t currently have a place of residence for us or much in order to attain that for us, so there is an even greater emotion attached to my service – grace and gratefulness. I think it becomes easy to lose daily appreciation when you already have all that you need and then some, even if you do not realize that you have more than enough. It took me having nothing but God’s grace and things in a suitcase to allow that kind of perspective and it became an even greater appreciation when I was brought to my most humble position living in a shelter in a different country.

“I have to say that you are handling this a lot better than I would be if I was you on this call.” said a customer service representative that I was on the phone about once when I lost two hundred valuable dollars to a gift card that didn’t function. “You know… I get that and honestly I have to give all credit to Jesus because a handful of years ago I definitely would not be handling a call or loss like this as well but there is just something about how He makes you smile through big losses and seeing purpose still.”, was my response and what was so beautiful is how the Holy Spirit worked through that one hour phone call to allow not only for perspective in the very real fact that God is the one in ultimate charge but I was able to pray for that man and his family on the phone call as we closed.

Perspective.

We are all different and have had differing life experiences that allow for a view to take root. This is where we get to practice our own grace because we have been given the greatest grace of all and it is important to have love and grace to ALL. Now, that other mom was not at the same table as me when I shared about how my life really is and the incredible story that God is using for His glory; she had no idea that house and pet sitting was our basics for living. I had already prayed for her that evening because I felt something underlying in her energy but now that I have been able to come to full circle with it and my own sensitivity with the interaction I am praying differently.

Perspective.

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