I’m sitting here on my little twin bed. The only light is a little lap on the nightstand. The sheets have polka dots and little blue and yellow flowers. I’m sitting alone in my little room, savoring the silence. I just finished sharing my last message at this women’s retreat, and I’m getting ready for bed, just basking in God’s goodness. The messages from the retreat are the previous post (“Women’s Retreat Notes”) for those of you from the retreat who might want the notes …
But what this weekend made me think about was how all of our evangelistic efforts will be void if we don’t have love and unity within our own church bodies. If our lives aren’t woven together into a beautiful and durable work of art on display for the world to see, what are we doing?
So, this is brief because I don’t want to spend too much retreat time sitting here alone in a corner talking about the importance of relationships :-). So the challege this week is to ask God if there is ANY relationship in our life that needs reconciliation. I know I have one. I was hurt several years ago and I’ve tried over and over to reconcile with this person, who is unwilling. But that doesn’t mean we give up. The reconciliation is not our responsibility but the EFFORT is. Our job is to go and seek to be made right. Even if we don’t know what we did or we think we didn’t do anything wrong, go, confess our own selfishness, and seek to be reconciled.