Compassion and People.
God has given me a knack for people. I love people. Yesterday, I was driving out to Disney on the hunt for a job after watching Modern Marvels do a special on the company. I was crying on the way there because I so badly wanted to be a part of something where the destination of every waking moment is to make dreams come true. I want to do that! I cried: God, give me a job here! I want to bless people’s lives. I want to make their dreams come true. I want to serve them. I will do anything for their joy, Lord. Anything! I don’t care if I pick up trash, just give me a job here.
God is revealing to me today that it isn’t about working at Disney to do that. The special on it gave you a glimpse of all of the strategizing it took to build Animal Kingdom, the newest park, and the genius behind all of the Imagineers’ passion to turn their dreams into reality -all of them were things you just don’t think about while you’re there, but when you’re shown you can never forget. To me -that was contagious! It’s about living your life that way. I always joke around with people who know me well that I could be happy at any job. I’m just happy serving people. I was put on this Earth to be last, and I love every bit of it!
I would suffer for the people around me. Another standing joke (not really a joke), I tell the friends in my immediate area what I would do for them in terms of my own body being harmed. For example: some friends, I would, with all the love in my bursting heart, submerge myself in a vat of acid in order to save. Other friends, I would take bullets in the kneecap. It’s kind of morbid when you think about it, but think about Jesus. It’s almost another revelation God is giving me right now, as I type this. It may be a joke (that I mean every word of) between friends and I as a way for me to tell them how much I love them in unconventional ways. But, Jesus did all of that and more for every single person on this Earth right now. I will be honest, there were some people I wouldn’t do that for. Not right now, anyway, but maybe that is something God will change in my heart. Maybe one day soon, the Holy Spirit will be so strong with his works in me and through me that I won’t have to think twice about taking acid for a stranger. If that’s God’s will, let it be done, and with as little resistance from me as possible.