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ALL RISE
Read: Mark 2:1-12
All were amazed and glorified God. —Mark 2:12
When I asked Jay to buy eggs on his way home so I could make cornbread for supper, he said, “I’ve got something better than cornbread.” Coming from Jay, that was a surprising statement, but I learned what he meant when he walked into the house and handed me a fresh loaf of homemade cinnamon bread. A label on the wrapper said, “Thanks for the dough. We kneaded it.”
The bread was made by Sue Kehr and given as a “thank you” for a donation to a youth organization. Sue started making bread in 1991 after having to quit her job as a nurse due to a head injury sustained in a car accident. Someone gave her a batch of “starter” for sourdough bread, and Sue started using it for ministry.
Instead of letting circumstances pull her down when she could no longer help people in her usual ways, Sue rose to a new challenge and created a unique expression of gratitude—making and giving away homemade bread.
Although Sue did not receive complete physical healing, she did, like the paralytic Jesus healed, rise up and cause many to be amazed at the work of God in her life.
God has something for each of us to do, and no physical limitation can keep us from rising up and doing it. —Julie Ackerman Link
Click here to read the published version in Our Daily Bread.
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