Hammer Time
Theme of the Week: How Good Feels
Jimmy Carter
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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Key Bible Verse: Oh the joys of those who are kind to the poor. The Lord rescues them in times of trouble (Psalm 41:1). Bonus Reading:Acts 20:34–35
Rosalynn and I send out a large number of fundraising letters for Habitat for Humanity, spend occasional days on Habitat projects near our home, and join with others for a week each year to build a number of complete homes.
To date, we have done this in New York City; Tijuana, Mexico; the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation in South Dakota; Liberty City in Miami; Philadelphia; Chicago; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Atlanta; Charlotte, North Carolina; the Watts area in Los Angeles; and the Appalachian Mountain region in Kentucky.
Rosalynn and I enjoy vacations, and we could go to Hawaii or on a Caribbean cruise every summer for about the same amount it costs us to travel to one of the Habitat building sites.
But when I look back on the last 12 years or so, I see that some of my most memorable and gratifying experiences were when I joined other volunteers, saw their extraordinary commitments, and worked to exhaustion building a house alongside the formerly forgotten family who would live there.
These exhilarating occasions have been rare in my life, but I have learned that the opportunities are always there, for any of us.
—Jimmy Carter in Living Faith
My Response: A time when I experienced exhilaration through serving was …
Thought to Apply: I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
—Pablo Casals (Spanish cellist, conductor, composer)
Adapted from Living Faith (Random House, 1996) by permission.
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Lord Jesus, You told us, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Help me to believe it and find true joy be acting on it.
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