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ARE YOU IMPACTING OTHERS?
Pastor Sue Garnett
I want to start by saying that any number of others, including
this is an article that came after someone who you may have just
quite some thought. It’s not always bumped into casually, but they
an easy task to decide what I spoke something into your spirit
should write about and if the topic that you needed to hear at that
will be relevant or if it makes as moment.
much sense when I write it down, Then I began wondering if I
as it did in my head. I always try have made an impact in anyone's
to see what I believe I am else’s life. Is there something I
supposed to write about and have done or could be doing that
usually in the last moments before would result in being that one
the deadline the Holy Spirit will thing, which could help someone
reveal it to me.
turn their lives around or take the
Even after the article is path God intended for them?
written, I have moments of doubt, Am I doing what I need to do
as I’m sure many of you have dealt to further God’s kingdom, even if it
with after taking a test or writing a is nothing more than being a
sermon or article. This time, I am sounding board for someone else
writing about something that has that is trying to decide their
been on my heart now for quite future? Or do I just turn my head
some time.
and ignore those who are
Have you ever thought about struggling with something, hoping
all those who have made an impact that they won’t ask me for any
in your life? Some positive, some advice, because I just don’t have
negative, but they changed your the time or maybe it’s really that I
life in some monumental way, even just don’t want to take the time?
if it just helped steer you down the We recently attended a
right path.
visitation for a fellow pastor at a
Some are no longer with us. local church, of which he had been
some been gone for decades, a few the former pastor. He not only was
years, a few months, or maybe a dear and close friend that we
even a recent loss. They may have loved and admired, but he was like
been teachers, preachers, bosses, family having a daughter that had
parents, grandparents, siblings, or married into our family.
