Beautifully Interrupted by Teresa Swanstrom Anderson

Author:Teresa Swanstrom Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worthy Publishing
Published: 2018-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Instead of simply going about his job, Cookie went outside his comfort zone and learned details about the individuals he came in contact with throughout his days. He knew everyone who worked in each and every store and he knew their stories. He knew them and joked with them and fellowshiped with them.

He shared life with them.

It wasn’t about the cookies he lined up so neatly on the grocery store shelves. It was about the people.

He has made a difference in the lives of so many. He has long since retired, but even still, years later, when I would visit Seattle and swing by our neighborhood QFC grocery store, I was greeted with questions of how Cookie was doing. Stories would then be retold, which always seem to end in laughter when Cookie was involved. Because Grandpa Cookie tells jokes and people love him.

Cookie is someone who lives out the example Jesus set when He walked the earth. Warmhearted and caring.

Cookie and Megan and you and me, we’re different. I was called to adoption and to have a houseful of children and to write a book and blog.

You are likely called to do something completely different. Something God has planned and equally as important.

Please, please don’t allow anyone to belittle your calling.

Don’t allow anyone to make you second-guess what you’re positive Christ has put on your heart. Whether it’s something huge and daunting, something that’s a bit scary and seems bigger than you can actually accomplish, or something that others may think isn’t big enough.

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8–9 NLT

Whether the Lord has called you to be the crossing guard at your kid’s school, work with recovering addicts in the inner city, begin a Bible study for college girls, or start a jewelry business partnering with artisan entrepreneurs to make a difference in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities—it’s all important.

Why?

Because the Lord has asked you to do it.

And that’s enough.

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