The Wanderer: Part 37 of 73
The Wanderer by Callie Roos, motivational speaker and author
Part 37 of 73
“What do you mean? I ask. “You minister where you are. To live, to do every day; that is ministry. Why do you want to go there? You can minister here. Every day as you learn, as you walk ahead, every decision, isn’t that ministry? To be in the bush is ministry. To smell this place is ministry.”
“No, you don’t understand,” I say. “I mean Ministry, as in work.” “I don’t understand you,” Xaba interrupts me hurriedly. “Wherever you work, you minister, it’s living. You live from inside. We must just live where we are, every day. That is good enough. That is what the Father planned for us in any case.
Damn it, you people are so mixed up!” It has been a long time since I saw Xaba this impatient. These thoughts are making him cross. “Yes, it may well be so,” I say. “But life does not work that way, my friend. First you need papers and then you must take up your place and position in the Ministry with your papers. I need a congregation. Without a place there is nothing.” “That is what I don’t understand about your kind,” Xaba mumbles.
“What?” I ask. “You are place-beguiled. In the old days it was also like that. Look how ostentatious your places are! Why can’t you just be? There where you are – that becomes the place.
That is how it should be: natural, spontaneous, normal.
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About the Author:
Callie Roos is a motivational speaker, teambuilding and leadership expert in South Africa.
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