LICE!! Gods Little Attitude Adjusters!

Hello there. This week has gone fast. Isn’t it funny when you get home from a trip it seems like the next week is when you play catch up. This week has had a lot of activities.
I want to tell you a story……On Monday we went to Cool Waters which is a program that the Sunset youth group participates in. Cool Waters is a program that feeds the homeless. This was a really impacting thing for me. I think that I was affected most by lice. When we got to the bus station (where we were handing out food) I saw a guy that looked pretty miserable. I took a lunch and gave it to him. I shook his hand and as I looked at him I noticed that his hair…….was moving. It was FULL of lice. I was immediately repulsed and discreetly moved to another part of the room. I was bothered all night, itching and scratching and feeling like there were bugs crawling all over me. When I got home I immediately got in the shower and scrubbed down from head to toe. However I still felt gross like I had bugs in my skin. I didn’t get very much sleep that night I was tossing and turning and feeling really silly because I didn’t even have lice but I was still going crazy. Then it hit me…….that man still has lice…real lice. AND he doesn’t have medicine, a bed, food or even the knowledge about Jesus to comfort him in his unfortunate position. I failed to give him the latter because I was a little uncomfortable. How selfish! The one thing that I could freely share with him I held back. If I were to catch lice by some strange incident I would have money to get medicine to take care of it, I would have water to wash in and I have Jesus to comfort me. I am constantly amazed at how the Lord works day by day because the very next morning in class we talked about how Jesus healed a leper in Luke. When He healed the man, He didn’t just wave His arms, pronounce him healed and leave because He didn’t want to be contaminated. NO! He actually TOUCHED him. He put his HANDS on that dirty, smelly and most likely lousy man. I am going to Cool Waters again this week, and I am going to try to find that man. I will shake his hand again, I will learn his name and I will pray with him. I will remember that in God’s eyes I am no better than he is…. clean or unclean, lice or not … Jesus loves us! ALL OF US! We are called to be JUST LIKE HIM!