thank you for your prayers

having a pretty hard time emotionally; camp training starts tomorrow. no time to post, but thank you for your prayers...
love
kate

findthekitty 

We have the most beautiful kittens living in our backyard now. They brighten my days. I had to take findthekittypictures because they are a bit skittish...

Sent two by two -- you and Jesus

"He wants Peter to feed his sheep and care for them,
not as "professionals" who know their clients' problems and take care of them,
but as vulnerable brothers and sisters who know and are known,
who care and are cared for,
who forgive and are being forgiven,
who love and are being loved.

Somehow we have come to believe that good leadership requires a safe distance from those we are called to lead...[but] laying down your life means making your own faith and doubt, hope and despair, joy and sadness, courage and fear available to others as ways of getting in touch with the Lord of life.

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for. The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God."

Something to chew on. I'm putting it up as a way to help myself chew on it longer and get this thought deeper into me-- and myself deeper into this thought.

It's from Henri Nouwen's 'In the Name of Jesus.' How broken we all are, especially me, and how loved! How small are the differences between our levels of brokenness and wisdom, when compared with the huge gulf between us and the holy, all-wise God. We're all in the same boat, all 'handicapped'... and yet Jesus makes something electrifyingly beautiful out of us when He brings us together in His love!