all in a days work

I pray and ask God that i would not be 2 different people. I always feel that at work I am not the man that my non work friends think I am. It's like there are two different worlds almost, or worse than that two different me's.

then God answers prayer when we ask Him to change us.

So I go to work friday morning, the day of our annual charity fund raiser. In the parking lot the man that everyone considers "the enemy" in our work place stops me and thanks me for a simple signature on a card and a short note after the death of his twin sister. I was shown a little of the heart of this man only because I made a small first move with a short note.

Then a co-worker who I had no idea I shared beliefs with, shares stories about a neighborhood church youth group and the people who have touched him with music and hospitality in his neighborhood.

Later that day a trustee from the jail who cleans floors and tables, picks up trash, and washes vehicles at the city garage I work at says to me "Marv says hi". He then informed me that he knows other friends of mine and has eaten at "love feasts" with me and other friends at the SBR ( my favorite neighborhood ministry).

Then at the end of the day as this years fundraiser wound down, I was loaded up with food by my co-workers to bring over to the SBR (last years fundraiser recipient) because my co-workers remembered them from the previous year.

God is teaching me that there are not 2 worlds, the kingdom of God is everywhere, the "church" is not a massive building, or even a gym. We are the church and the church is where ever we physically are, the street corner, the car, the pub, the workplace, the coffee shop, the prayer room, and even the meeting place on a sunday morning.