Today's Special ~ Hope

Henry Davidson

Sharon needed some extra help this morning serving breakfast at the HD Youth Center so I volunteered to help out. I was the official dishwasher! I stayed pretty busy as we served 88 breakfasts in 1 1/2 hours.

The HD Youth Center is an amazing place. There's nothing quite like it. Just about every weekday morning you will find people from New Covenant there serving breakfast. Henry provides the vision and heart, and the volunteers provide the helping hands. Somehow, it all fits together into a beautiful mosaic. The body of Christ in action; serving, sharing, caring and giving.

And most mornings, if you look closely, you will see that there is more being served up than breakfast. The food is served with generous portions of love, courtesy, honor, and dignity. People know that the HD Youth Center is one place they can go and be treated with respect. They know that hope is always on the morning menu.

This morning I had the opportunity to pray with Larry who was going to Iowa City today for further tests to determine the source of the spot on his lung. It was a short prayer, nothing too elaborate. It was the kind of prayer that I thought Larry would want. It was a prayer for healing straight from my heart to the heart of God.

This morning at the HD Youth Center, we served eggs, pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and toast. People came hungry and left filled. But today we also served much more than breakfast. If you looked carefully and listened closely, you would have observed that today's special was hope for the human soul.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He give strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:28-31