Thoughts.

I know God has given me everything, and to give Him back anything would dim in comparison.

But God, its not easy to give - this would seem like the whole world to me.

Why is it that for those serving in the ministry, you must become a punching bag for others to vent their frustrations and emotions on?

I'm starting to realise the honest truth - for those who serve in the ministry, they often must walk alone.

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Its easy to do things for God, easy to claim that God has called me to do something.

I'm not discrediting the fact that He doesn't.

Oh but how easily corrupted the hearts of men can become!

The call to ministry must therefore be coupled with opening our hearts to God's searchlight - to put to death the self first, and then to embrace the honour of being able to avail myself to the service in God's Kingdom.

Ability is not a pre-requisite; faith is.

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RCC is a church of many faces, each with their own personal story to tell. Some sing of epic victories; others weep of painful failures. Nevertheless, thats who we are - the Church, full of weak, frail, fallible people who won't call it quits, each coming from a place with their own tales that are woven together into a tapestry of the people of God.

To serve in such a ministry, we must love them first. Put aside the differences, put aside the judgments, put aside the critical opinions against those who are unlike the mainstream, socially construction of what is deemed 'normal' in church.

I guess this is the hardest part about loving - to see people thru God's eyes.