The Inconvenient Truth

I sat this morning, coffee in hand, armed with a slew of notes on things I want to blog about disabilities ministry.

It's been a couple of months since I've written anything.  I took a step back to really consider what it is the Lord wants me to do with my--almost obsessive--need to write on this topic. 

Who am I to speak on behalf of these families?  What can I possibly offer that everyone around me doesn't already know? Why me God? 

As I sat there this morning tapping nervous fingers next to the keyboard, torn between wanting to speak up and wanting to just be done with this whole thing...it hit me.

Again.

The inconvenient truth.

God does not call me to be the hands and feet of Jesus when it's comfortable.  He doesn't ask me to serve His people when I feel like it.  And He does not promise that responding to His call on my life will be convenient.  

But He calls me still.

And He is faithful to show me time and time again that the need is real.

This morning He used the powerful testimony of a sweet mother I met at a retreat for families touched by special needs.  As I read her thoughts, her heart bared, the tears began to flow.

If you read one thing this evening let it be this:

An Inconvenient Life. 

Or bookmark and read it when you have time.

Or call me and I'll read it to you.

But please...read it.  Soak it in.  Let it change the way you see these precious families.

And consider this:

If you group those affected by special needs and their families all together, they are--in essence--the largest unreached people group in the world.

"The disappointment for us, is that they all talked about it from their mission statements and prayers and speeches: they want to embrace diversity and reach all people and be missionaries… yet in their efforts to reach the world they’ve stumbled over us at their doorstep and kept right on walking." 

-"An Inconvenient Life" / Snowflakes and Seashells blog

Again (because I don't want you to miss this) those affected by special needs and their families make up the largest unreached people group in the world!  

What are we waiting for?!

-Cassi