The brightest diamond;

Jesus. He meets us right where we are. He takes broken people, so different and yet so much more alike and shows us the scars on His hands and said it’s ok if we have scars too, because the scars are always drawing us to Him.

If you’re discouraged because of God’s delay in answering your prayers, understand the delay is not a denial. Just because the answer or the miracle hasn’t come—yet—that doesn’t mean God isn’t going to answer, or that he’s forgotten you, or that he doesn’t care about you. It simply means “not yet!”

So many of us are waiting for that perfect time or perfect calling…This is God’s perfect time. God does not wait for the world to get ready, He enters right into the mess. He doesn’t mind that I am not ready yet. He doesn’t mind that I don’t have enough money or courage or time. He doesn’t mind the sometimes wretched condition of my heart or the “stench” of my daily sin. God’s time is now and He enters into the mess, ready or not.

He is teaching me to stop for ONE. It is hard and it is ugly. Every time I stop for that ONE struggling friend, that ONE hungry old man, that ONE needy person, my mind races with the statistics of how many more there are that I am not touching, not feeding, not saving. God whispers every time though that this ONE is enough. That this ONE is feeling His love and that is eternal. I see thousands of eyes and feel thousands of little  hands. I know that even on the hardest day, stopping is worth it. A life changed is worth it, even if only ONE. God’s love made known is worth it, even if only to ONE. I will not save them all. But I will keep trying. I will say Yes. I will stop for that ONE no matter how hopeless. God, give us the stregth to say yes to whoever you put in our paths today.