Impact

"Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!" - Pope Francis

      Often times, we don't see the impact we have on NET. Being on a parish team, we definitely get to see more of the fruits of our work, but it's still not something that comes up every day or even every week quite frankly. 

      We look for big changes in youth, we look for a large success at a youth night, and that's not what our focus should be on. Sometimes it's hard, but we need to seek to find the glory in the little things because even a small victory is huge when it comes to finding Christ. We may not always see the fruits of our work, but that doesn't mean that we aren't making an impact.

      One day in the last couple weeks, we were doing team prayer in the Church. A lady walks in and she is preparing the Church for her mothers funeral. She comes in and out a few times during the hour placing flowers in front of the alter, and afterwards she approached a few of us. She thanked us. She said that we really impacted her that day, and she felt God with her because of our prayers and was comforted. 

      That's an impact. That is a glory that we would never have known if she hadn't told us how we impacted her that day. And when things like that happen, it reminds me that even our presence there at the parish is impacting people every single day and we are indeed making a difference even when we can't see it. By our actions and our words we are making a difference. 

      So when we sit here and start to wonder if we're making a difference, I remind myself of these moments and remember that even though we may not see the fruits of our work, they are there and they are happening every day, even through the small things that we do. God doesn't need a lot of time to work in a person's heart, He only needs a single moment in time.

Blessings,

Hunter 
- iNFUSE 1 in Swift Current, SK