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Today I am joining Kate Motaung for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt. Five minutes. No editing. Lots of women. We all write on the same word.

Today the word is ….. Tell-300x300

I was saddened this week to hear of the passing of Robin Williams. I thought of how many nights he made me laugh as I watched Mork & Mindy. He made us all laugh for years.

And then I remembered another life from years ago …..

She came to Bible Study almost every week without fail. She often invited several of us to her home for lunch. Lunch was always an amazing experience as you never knew who she would also invite.

She viewed lunch as a means to have others to her home to tell them about Jesus. So she would invite women she knew from around the neighborhood. Sometimes she would invite the moms of her sons’ friends. And she would ask a few believers.

She was a small Asian woman and lunch would also be a cooking lesson …. Chinese dumplings, fried rice, wonton soup.

No one ever refused to come as she was known for great food and her cooking lessons. She knew they would come and she knew they would hear as she would tell them of Jesus.

That is why it was a shock when she took her own life.

This gentle and quiet woman who loved her family and her Jesus. This one who seized every opportunity to tell others about Jesus.

I have often wondered how we all couldn’t see the signs which were not telling the full story of the turmoil eating away at her. For then we would have been able to tell her …

Yes, there is hope in Jesus.

And yes, He truly does work in and through medication.

May we be faithful to tell those about Jesus. May we tell them of His love, peace and joy. And may we faithfully tell them, He brings hope.

But may we also tell them, He has given knowledge and wisdom, opening the field of medicine to remedy things beyond our control.

May we tell them, He can bring healing miraculously. He is able.

And may we tell them, He also does some of His finest healing in and through prescriptions because He deeply loves them.

Tell them.

But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tell them? (Romans 10:14, NLT)

 

Today I am joining … Five Minute Friday, Everyday Jesus, Faith Filled Fri., Friendship Fri., Essential Fri., Fellowship Fri., Fulfilled Fri. .

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