After having a long effective but lonely day, I was blessed with a brother having time to talk. This friend works at the Engen garage in Erasmuskloof. After having a long and encouraging chat, I was heading in for some coffee at the Coco when a woman came walking by looking traumatized. Asking to make a call from my phone, she realized her phone was gone. Contributing to her trauma, she just kept on walking, and crying. John and I did not even hesitate to go after her, and eventually she was convinced to join me inside the Bistro.
After her repeated inquiry on who I am, and why I would at this particular place, I realised that the trauma the is experiencing, the pain and suffering cannot be put into words. Letting go of wanting to inquire on the reason for her distress, I quickly used the tools available. With great appreciation for the skills I came to practice, we used the social media to get in contact with her family. A mere 20 minutes from first contact to pickup, we became sisters.
The love that we need to live out comes in incomprehensible packages. Her continual denial of being free to ask God why stuck with me. One of my street brothers once prayed for the people in prisons. Here I found a sister who is being imprisoned by some lie that our Father shuns His children away, denying them the comfort that only He can provide.
In this double blessing, I not only came to understand something about the lies we dare not challenge, due to the possible live changing effect. I also came to see that just being comforted in presence we are the provision to others for which we ourselves long. We may just be the provision God sends to others. It just comes to show that within the Body, we are set apart to fulfil certain roles. If not acting when occasion calls, and led in the spirit, we may just be disrespecting and abandoning our fellow brothers and sisters in not carrying the Good news we live by.
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