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Ralph Fravel
Thanks Lynne for your post and your work in Guatemala. Welcome back to the country with the word "stuff"; something many countries don't have.
As I celebrate Thanksgiving, I remember Jesus who gave us more than anything I can think of or imagine….more grace (John 1:14), more wine (John 2:1-11), more loaves and fishes (John 6:11-13). And in remembrance of Him, I reflect on how I am living in a world without, and that I can be the way for others to know Him and the fullness that only He provides.
As we think about what we should be doing with our lives, consider the words of "The Great Without," written by Jane Sandeberg Guinness, a missionary to China in the early 1900’s.
"A great without has been written upon heathenism.
Men and women are toiling without a Bible, without a Sunday,
without a prayer, without songs of praise.
They have rulers without justice and without righteousness;
homes without peace; marriage without sanctity;
young men and girls without ideals and enthusiasms;
little children without purity, without innocence;
mothers without wisdom or self-control;
poverty without relief or sympathy;
sickness without skillful help or tender care;
sorrow without any to bind up the wounded hearts;
sin and lying and crime without a remedy;
and worst of all, death without hope."
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