A little background info: Tonight was my first night back in good ole Mob town, and I was dying to watch A Little Princess, so Wags, Mary Emma, Julia, and I headed to Target in search of it. After the kind Target employee directed Mary Emma to Shirley Temple's A Little Princess (not what i'm looking for), I felt a little disappointed. BUT!! then it caught my eye, A LITTLE PRINCESS (the right one this time). I felt like a kid on Christmas morning!! After grabbing a few other things, we headed back to the house and were warmly greeted by Brittany and her dirty laundry. She set her heaping basket down and followed us up the stairs. We hadn't seen each other in a couple weeks, so we embraced for a good 2 minutes and proceed to sit down in the middle of the floor at the top of the stairs and catch up on the past few weeks. After a good 45 minute to an hour of talking about big things God had been doing in each of our lives, we retreat back to our room. A little while later, Brit reminded me that we have the movie to watch, but forgetful me can't remember where i left it in all of the welcome back from Target excitement. I searched the house high and low, and while I was looking in the study room for the third time- Lightbulb. I had carried a box of tshirts upstairs and put the movie in it, and the box had been taken to a dorm. I came back to report this to Brittany, again in hopes of a solution. Well it was about negative 12 degrees here in Mobile (really about 27), but we decided the movie is worth the brutal winds and arranged to pick the movie up at this particular dorm. We got decked in a plethora of random articles of warm clothing (check it out for yourself) and made a mad dash to my freezing car. I blasted the air as i usually do. My thinking is that if I blast it all the cold air will come out faster and then warm air will come faster too. Obviously Britt doesn't agree with my philosophy, so with attitude flipped the air completely off. Probably because the 2 inch gap between her flowery capri pants and monster's Inc. slippers revealing her bare shin was freezing. We finally get to the building but because of how parking is set up we still had a way to walk to this particular dorm. On the count of 3, we jumped out of the car as the frigid wind took our breath away. Like stiff, hunched over, old women we slowly scuffled/jogged towards our destination. In order to forget how cold it was, we made random comments such as:
Britt: what if you looked out of your window and saw 2 girls running at 12 am dressed like this?
or
Me: Make way for monster's inc and looney toons!!!!!! (followed by a ninja kick)
We finally made it to the dorm (well we werent 100% sure it was the right one, thankfully it was) and got the the movie, then, with a sense of great victory, ran back to my car to get warm, this time with onlooking passerby's.
In all the fun and laughter, we couldn't help but hurt for those who won't be going back to warm homes, warm cars, warm clothes, and warm food tonight. We live in a culture that is very indulgent, and it can be easy to get caught up in it. Gotta fight! As ambassadors for Christ (2 corinthians 5:20), we are called to be the Hands and Feet of Christ- meeting spiritual and physical needs. So the question rings in our heads, "What are we doing!?" with 12 jackets in our closets, multiple scarfs, warm slippers, piles of blankets/pillows on our beds, and everything else we need to suit our selfish comforts.
Lord, make this a reality to us. Move us to act. You are all we need, You are our comfort, not these clothes, not a full belly, nothing but You. Enable us to act- move us to give our lives away!
Matthew 25:45 "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me.'"
Proverbs 14:31 "He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God"
Kelsey and Brittany
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