Submitted by: Alicia Meyer, regional president – Alaska
At many stepping stones in my life I have been asked some form of the question “What prompted me to respond to a call to service?” and just as many times my answer starts with a PWOC sister’s name. For example “Well, Dawn suggested…” or “Karen came to me and said…” and I got to thinking about what they have taught me either by lesson or example and I had this thought “She was a verb in my life!” We know something has arrived in the worldly sense when a proper noun becomes a verb. In this age, we ‘Google’ things on the web instead of looking them up or we ‘Martha Stewart’ something when we make some not so cute item into a “good thing”. These women saw something that God planted inside me and didn’t say …”one day you will…” they reached inside and helped it grow, they took an active role in my life, and they became verbs in my life.
In the Great Commission Jesus said:
“Therefore, Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matt28:19-20a)
These are very active words, they are verbs. They require action; they require me to take an active role in someone’s life.
I am thankful for these Titus II women in my life and the verbs they became and find myself asking; “Am I a verb in someone’s life?” This term the Alaska Region has been called to “unite and empower”, this too requires action, so I challenge everyone to consider how it is that you are accomplishing this in your life and the lives of others. Are you acting on the call God has placed on our lives to invest in others?
