Ordinary Days

My Rebecca at an orphanage in India, summer 2001

"Brightly colored sunsets and starry heavens, majestic mountains and shining seas, and fragrant fields and fresh-cut flowers are not even half as beautiful as a soul who is serving Jesus out of love, through the wear and tear of an ordinary, unpoetic day." 
                                                          ~ Frederick William Faber ~


Dear Lord Jesus, 
      As we go about our ordinary days, I pray that, everywhere we go, we will serve in love everyone we encounter, beginning in our own homes. 
                                                             I love You, Lord,
                                                                      Jill

"...whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen!" (1 Peter 4:11)