We took the subway, but when we got to REI, we found it closed early due to the storm. Frustrated, we turned back towards the street, and noticed a van stuck in the middle of an intersection. We quickly went to help and proceeded to spend the next half hour pushing stuck vehicles.
I reflected on this on our way back. Our frustration about trekking to REI only to find it closed was very short-lived. I believe helping those people is why we made that cold, wet journey. It was God's purpose...not ours.
"'For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,' declares the Lord." ~Isaiah 55:8
Experience Mission's "motto" is Live Your Mission. Did things go as planned yesterday? No. Will things in the next five months always go as planned? Definitely not. But it's learning to be flexible and serving where we're at. It's about seeing a need and diving in with a servant's heart. Yesterday, we worked as a team to get cars out of stuck snow. We were cold, hungry, and at first frustrated, but had there been more stuck cars after we pushed the last one, we would have stayed out there. We were there not on our own time, but on God's. We embodied what it means to "live your mission".
Living My Mission,
Sierra
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