..........but there is always someone who is hurting more. We all face difficulties in our life....... but there is always someone who has a burden far heavier than ours. We have all lost something of value in our life.......but there is always someone who has lost everything. We all think our situation is hopeless.......but there is always someone who has given up completely. And in every case, the "someone" is not just an individual, but a whole host of people, maybe even a whole community or nation group.
We tend to see our own problems as the worst thing in the world, and then we meet that person who doesn't even think they have a problem at all. And when we look at them, we can't imagine how we would handle that "problem" if it were ours. Here at the Passion Play we have many opportunities to work with others, interact with visitors who are facing, or have faced, major hurdles in their life and yet they are determined to be an example of how to face their issues with optimism, humility and even gratitude and thanks. I don't want to name names, but we have a number of people in our PP ministry who are battling serious health issues and yet are contributing to the ministry by doing what they can to present the message of Jesus, not only to our guests, but to each of us, and they do it with all the effort they can muster and no complaints or woe-is-meeing. And many of our guests are ministering to us by their desire to see all and do all the activities we have for them on the Passion Play grounds even when the facilities are not as "handicap-accessible " as we would want them to be.
Yes, we all hurt....... but think of our Lord and Savior......how He suffered......and how He bore the burdens of the whole world so that we might have life.......life with Him......now.......and forever. Thank You, Thank You, Lord.
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