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Ezekiel was taken by the Spirit to dwell with the Israelite captives living by the Chebar River. He stayed there with them for seven days, and I am sure he was never the same man after that experience.
Several years ago, my husband and I worked with people who were hurting emotionally. We made ourselves open to their problems. We weeded with them in the community garden patch. We sat on the ground among the weeks and listened as they unloaded their hurts to us. We probably accomplished more in that time of sitting among them than we would have if we had been preaching at them or teaching them.
Since my stroke, when I am waiting for the handicapped transportation, I am aware of how close I have become to the hurting of the area. I know this could only be possible because of what I have gone through. Some of these people have been in wheelchairs since birth. I had seen the buses of Project Lift on the highway in the past and had no idea what it was all about. Now I can identify with the passengers.
We take our health for granted until we sit where the handicapped and hurting are sitting. Maybe it takes longer than seven days for some of us to be amazed--maybe it will take me the rest of my life--but we know God will be sitting with us, whether it is in a weedy garden patch or in a wheelchair. However long it takes, God will astonish us as He works in our lives. We just have to be willing to sit where God places us.
This one is by Phyllis Schneider of Kitchener, Ont.
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