HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADIBA
Tomorrow is Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday. It is also the Nelson Mandela International Day, marked as a day to honour Madiba’s legacy by people engaging in selfless acts of service. Many people have responded. People of faith or no faith, young and old, all over the world. Even here at CMM.
Media houses are running stories of how individuals will be spending their 67 minutes. How will you spend Mandela Day?
As Christians we are expected to give our lives in service to those created in the image of God. Through love, care and compassion we follow Jesus’ example.
How awesome it would be if as Christians we went beyond the Mandela Day gift and continued our minutes or hours of service on a Christ-inspired basis, daily, weekly…… to meet the needs of our neighbours.
The Mandela Day hype has a challenge for us to turn our words and speech into truth and action. Let us share in the words of a hymn:
Jesus’ hands were kind hands, doing good to all,
Healing pain and sickness, blessing children small,
Washing tired feet and saving those who fall;
Jesus’ hands were kind hands, doing good to all.
Take my hands Lord Jesus, let them work for you;
Make them strong and gentle, kind in all I do;
Let me watch you, Jesus, till I’m gentle too,
Till my hands are kind hands, quick to work for you.
(Margaret Cropper)
Gilbert.
