This week has been an amazing week. Not only were we serving God through the Sporting Soaring and Scoring Soccer Clinic, but we also served Him by serving the entire community through various servant events. My favorite servant event was the party at Huntington Terrace; a retirement center where I had the opportunity to have dessert and conversation with none other than Mr. And Mrs. Huntington Terrace, and the 1946 Rose Festival Queen, Billie.

In the short hour I spent talking with Billie I heard stories from her life and learned very quickly that she is a woman whose faith has moved mountains, and that her sense of humor isn’t lacking. She has God on her side and there is nothing the world can do to take that from her.

My favorite story of the ones that she told me is about faith.  Billie was diagnosed with a deadly condition; the doctor gave her seven days to live.  On day five, her daughter came and said “Mom, you have two days left”.  Billlie’s response was “Well, give me a minute by myself”.  And so her daughter stepped out of the room.  Then Billie prayed “God, if you can’t have this disease, than neither can I because I am your reflection.”  That happened two and a half years ago.

That was Billie’s reflection on her life.  Every day this week we had a ‘reflection time’ in the evening for each day, and my talk with Billie was the most meaningful of those to me.  It made me want to take to heart our group’s theme, “Servant Extreme”.  Our lives should be lived by reflecting Christ.

And one more thing about Billie--She has undertaken a wonderful ministry involving pins and prayer.  She buys angel pins, gives them to people, and then writes down the name of each person who receives one so that she can pray for them every night.  Please bow your heads and pray along with me as I pray her prayer: “I am the place where God shines through for God and I are one, not two.  God wants me where and as I am.  I need not will, nor fret, nor plan.  And if I be relaxed and free, God will work His plan through me.”

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