Ministry of Absence

Ministry of Absence I was the other day, meditation and contemplation of thousands of people in the cemeteries who lived and died with printing on someone. No one hated them and no one liked. Are not missed, because you never know their existence. They have not influenced their lives in any way memorable. How sad.There is a wonderful gift in the power of the goodness of men. A new life is in our hearts the desire for love, compassion and understanding. When you get to touch and love, is something precious to you in essence and soul of another. When you touch the other in empathy, kind, gentle ways, you can be incognizant impressions, which are imbued with the spirit of their screen every word, hug, or synthesis. Yet the force of your kindness will be warmly remembered long after leaving the scene. There is something redemptive magnetic thin that mysteriously pass on to others in a positive, healthy and permanent way. The Ministry of absence, the most lasting and fruitful ministry. The impact has made life continues to affect you even if the Minister is no longer physically present.And, I hasten to add that has not much to do with what you say. It is even less to do with what you do. But is not that there are currently not say anything or do anything. And 'when nobody is looking or listening. E 'that you like you are about the business of life. Device without the will of man, no trick, no ingenuity can produce a healing influence of a dissolute life. But for the life wrapped in the cloak of love and human compassion, is a certain atmosphere that will generate and bring with you in some way, which saves on other lives. During the moments of remembrance and recollection intervals is miraculously reappear in the lives of those who have touched, even if in silence absent.It, holy, powerful and infection of a Christian? S life. If you have even when you absent.My prayer Holy God, May I never be too busy, too busy and too selfish with my time, to attain the love of my peers. Merciful Lord, is' that the influence of your Holy Spirit, be reflected in all my life to save one, holy, and lasting impression on the lives of others. Let me live a life of faith that others may be established for you. In the blessed name of Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Spirit reigns forever, please. Amen.Rev. Saundra L. Washington, DC, is an ordained clergywoman, social worker, and Founder of AMEN Ministries. It 'also the author of two coffee table books: Room Snow: Poems that Preach and Negative Disturbances: Homilies that teach. His new book, out of deep water: A Grief Healing of work, will soon be available.