It only takes one...

This weekend we took some students from my class to downtown Cleveland to feed the homeless at a few different shelters. I think it was a very important opportunity for students to experience others who are less fortunate then they are and give them some perspective on what "real life" can sometimes be like in contrast to the "unreal life" most of them live. At each shelter there was an opportunity for everyone to get in a circle and share a praise to God. Mostly the students just watched as homeless people praised God for faithfulness and love and many other things, but then it happened, the highlight of my night, one 13 year old girl spoke up in a group of mostly homeless men and shared a scripture from Psalms that God had laid on her heart, and I watched as hearts around the circle melted including mine. What was better? That she, at 13, followed the leading of the Holy Spirit and spoke out boldly in an awkward group or that the Word of God spouted from her like a fountain so much so that I felt a small drip coming from my own eyes. I could not have been more proud of her at that moment. That is why I do what I do...It only takes one to make it all seem worth while.