Truely Humble

Must be something in the air at the moment, but my dear friend Judith in Spain and I have been starting to re-email about deep subjects. I don't think I often know what this woman is up to in her life but I do know what she thinks. Anyway this one is something that made me look more clearly after her email that I just managed to glance at before a weekend away with my husband just the two of us!!!

We were walking near Symonds Yat in the Wye valley and came across a lady with a cafe. Well actually cafe isn't the right word at all. Basically all she had was a table across her open front doorway and in the hall an urn, mugs, cakes, tea and coffee and that was all, and one sat on tables in her south facing front garden. A really blessing on a beautiful sunny January day.
We got talking to her and she turned out to be a Christian, who'd been saved at a Luis Pais meeting 24 years ago in Cardiff. The change in her was so dramatic that her husband, daughter, son and mother followed her into her journey with Jesus. She lived in this house from the time she married and has gone to the same church for the 24 years. And just listening to her this was her calling, to just be there for walkers as they passed by and just give them a mug of tea, a cake and a chat.
We watched her she seemed to have something to say to everyone and everyone was relaxed to be there.
She has a big conviction that she isn't to open on a Sunday as that is the day of rest and to be with God and family, even though she is probably losing hundreds of pounds. And she does say that the temptation is there when they sit in their garden watching streams of people go passed but no her conviction is to stay closed no matter what on a Sunday and God honours this.
But what stuck us most was the total humbleness of this lovely lady who was just obeying God in such a lovely simple way, no desires to run a church, go to Africa - not that there is anything wrong with these things if God tells us to do them. It would be being disobedient to not go. But I do wonder how often we want for the bigger things and miss our humble and obedient calling to just walk out the ordinariness of what God has for us on this earth.