Let's finish last.

Hey all.

Today I was thinking. You know the last shall be first deal? Yeah, never made much sense to me. I mean I knew it means something seeing as it’s in the Bible and all but what it exactly it’s getting at was beyond me...until today.

So I start to get some picture in my head, right? I think of Mother Teresa. I picture what her race must have looked like and I see her standing amongst everyone saying:

"You can do it. One more step, awesome. Keep running, you’re almost there. You can do it. Way to be. Great. He's watching you and He's proud. Run. Yes that's it, oh wonderful, how can I help you? Do you need something? Are you hurt? I have a band aid.. Let me help you. Hold on guys, we need to wait for them. Yes, that's it. Run. You’re tired? You need to crawl? All right, everybody on your stomachs. We're crawling. You want to run? Everybody up, and if you can’t run, jump on someone who is running. We’re almost there. I can't wait. Let’s go. We can do it. I see Him. He’s right there waiting for us. Wait, in fact He's running to us. Let’s hurry up and meet Him. He's going to take us in His arms. Ah, praise God!"

Being last allows you to cheer others on, making them work harder, encouraging them to persevere, and helping them do their best.

To conclude, most of us would say that Mother Teresa was leaps and bounds ahead of us in her faith, and probably was. She knew what it meant to meet everyone where they were at. To serve them. To love them. But she chose to run amongst us and she sometimes ran a step behind us cheering us on. So in fact last was first. I always thought of it as if I’m last then I’ll be first, which is true, but I want to point out that in order to be last you need to strive at being “first” with God, loving Him first with all your heart and all your mind, and all your soul, so that in turn you can cheer others on from behind. Just a thought. Let me know what you think...

Cheering you on wherever you find yourself in the run today.

May you come to cheer others on in humbleness.

Kaylee