Feeding of the 5,000

I was recently reminded of a trip that I went on with my church. There was about 10,000 people that went and gathered in St. Louis, Missouri. We all brought a box or suitcase full of food for the homeless around the world. We planned on feeding 5,000 families for a week. However, we ended up packing 10,000 boxes, feeding 10,000 families or 40,000 people for a week. Packing my box of food for that family that I will never know or be able to know is something I will never forget. With every can or box I put in my box I was blessed more and more. I had this connection with God that I can't explain. I had a wordless conversation with God. It was then that I realized that I will not be truly happy in life unless I am helping people because people are worth more than money can ever buy.

I guess my reason in saying this is, if you have never had the joyous experience of helping feed someone who can't afford it, or you have never been a friend to someone lonely in a nursing home, or you have never spent a day passing out school supplies to kids that can't afford it, then you are missing out. We are all just people without a purpose, until we get over ourselves and realize that other people are dying to be heard, be seen, be fed, be helped and we act on it.

Of course, sometimes fully giving of yourselves is hard or even painful because we are human, but at the end of yours and my life I think that it will be rewarding.

Packing my box was a defining moment for me, because that is when I realized unless I am reaching out to people and showing them the Love that Jesus Christ has poured out on me, I am nothing. I am nothing without the love that Jesus Christ has poured out on me.

1 Corinthians 13