📖“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field… you shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 23:22
There are days when showing up feels like planting seeds in dry soil. Quiet, unnoticed, almost thankless. This weekend was one of those days. I had five signed up. Not ten. Not twenty. Just five. I packed double anyway — just because I like to be prepared. And wouldn’t you know, a few more came. So we set up a few more tables and fetched the second box of canvases we had left in the car.
I could have cancelled. I could have rescheduled. But I showed up. And there in that humble room — plastic tablecloths, palettes of paint, hearts quietly opening — Holy Spirit moved.
Then this morning, I received this handwritten note, reminding me again why we do what we do.
"We’ve been praying for a ministry that can cater to drug-addicted, lost street people...""Thank you for your ministry. I see many people coming to JESUS because of your efforts."
Nancy’s words, a seed of encouragement watered with hope. A divine reminder that what may look small in the natural is often sacred in the unseen.
Leviticus 23:22 isn't just about crops. It’s about margin. Leaving space for the ones who wander in late. The ones who didn’t RSVP. The ones who can’t pay but carry a hunger far deeper than food. We leave space — in our calendars, in our supply kits, in our hearts — for the ones Jesus would have stopped for on the road.
The image from that spiral-swirled background card — a group of eclectic, colourful people — captured it perfectly. A community not bound by sameness, but connected by kindness.
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