WWJD?

This year has been tremendously stressful for us. I fully realize we are not alone on this. Each and every day people endure stress to one degree or another, but with all we have had going on since the second week of January, I was starting to feel like I was losing all perspective on what is really important in life. There was even an instance last Friday where my husband looked at me and said , "I think I just saw your faith fly out the window." So, clearly, though I claim to have given my life to Christ, my flesh has taken over with worry, stress, and thoughts as to just how I can fix everything. I count on church every Sunday to help me recharge, refocus, fill in the gaps of all that I miss out on during the week as I try to maneuver this crazy world, forgetting most times that there is a guide who will guide me if only I will ALLOW Him to :) I had high expectations going into church service last evening, and I was not to be disappointed. This past weekend was an Army drill weekend. That means my husband does everything possible to get home by 6 pm on Sunday evenings to attend our church service. He doesn't always make it in time, but you can be sure he has done everything to be certain he has tried his best. Last evening I received the phone call that he was pretty sure he wasn't going to make it in time. He and the buddy that was riding with him had noticed a car broken down on the side of interstate 64 and had stopped to help someone in need. "I will try to make it in time, but it doesn't look likely." I wasn't disappointed, this was nothing new to me. When I say my husband is one of a kind, he NEVER drives by someone who needs help on the side of the road...NEVER. We will call it providence then, that Roger, our pastor, mentioned the importance of helping those in need during his sermon last night. He also spoke very frankly about how churches can get caught up in rules and committees when really, all church should be about is a relationship with Jesus Christ, not all of the other stuff. At one point Roger said, "If someone approached this church and needed $1000, we wouldn't run it past some committee or take weeks to decide while the person sat in need, we would just give them the $1000". Makes sense right? When it came time for Jesus to help people in need did he consult and deliberate and make sure it was ok to do so or did he just DO IT because he knew it was the right thing? Our culture has gotten a little caught up in "church" and possibly lost a bit of the true meaning of Christianity. The sermon ended, we sang one last song and did one last prayer. As our little group began to break and folks started talking and laughing, I noticed my husband walking down the aisle. Something was up, he was still in uniform (a true sign if you know him, he hates attention and never goes anywhere in uniform)...and just behind him walked a woman. All I could think of at first was "Those are the saddest looking eyes I have ever seen!" He quickly called the church back together and explained the situation. He and his buddy had stopped to help this woman on the side of the road, her car had completely broken down, she was lost and all she wanted in this whole wide world was to get back to her two daughters in Roanoke, VA. My husband, having obviously not heard the sermon at all said, "I thought there might be something we as a church could do here." Immediately our Pastor pulled out his wallet and five different phones began dialing tow trucks. In the end, another member of our church family offered to take her to Wal-Mart to wait for the tow truck driver. The woman could not stop crying, overwhelmed that she was receiving so much help from people she had never seen in her life. It was an incredible God moment and one I dearly needed to witness as I had been so worried about things that seem important to me but were really not. If I took a clue from my husband, took my mind off of our worries, helped other people and acted more Christ like, I would get to see more beautiful moments like the one we enjoyed as a church last night. I share this story not to brag on our church (though if you know me you know I do that quite often!), and not even to brag on my husband (though much to his attention hating embarrassment I also do quite often)...but to hopefully help make myself think little less about my worries and a little more about Christ. At one time the phrase "What would Jesus do?" became highly popular, almost to the point of being cliche...but last night our little church was able to witness not only what Jesus would do, but what God would have His church do as a whole. It was a blessing to witness and I couldn't help but share! Thanks for reading :)