The most amazing thing took place at the evangelization booth on July the 22nd. I didn’t recognize it as the most significant event, but over the course of the next few days, the Lord showed me in a very personal way that more than all the other events of the month, this was the crowning one for Him. That Saturday, while I was away from the evangelization booth on rounds through the market, a very surprised street person named James approached Fred. He showed him the dirty, wrinkled “Come as You Are” pamphlet in his hand and related the story of how this pamphlet had fallen from the sky and landed on his pile of belongings at a time that he was very near despair.
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James came to our evangelization booth again on the last Saturday of the month. He has been helping us to distribute pamphlets and has even boldly stepped up to the free speech microphone to read the contents of the “Come As You Are” pamphlet to the crowds gathered around. He has approached the local social services in town to help him get off the street and seemed much better dressed and cleaned up than the week before. I see him at Mass quite often. He is interested in attending our weekly TLIG prayer meetings and it seems that he will start in August.
We must NEVER forget that the Lord rejoices more at the conversion of a single poor soul that all the other wonderful things he allows to happen in our lives. The Lord is more deeply present in the midst of chaos, dirtiness, and trial than he is when we find ourselves standing in the presence of earthly kings and queens. The Lord lifts up the lowly and brings down those enthroned in the heights…better to stay near the ground!
Your brother in Christ,
Zigmas Kungys
With Thanks, extract taken from the August 21, 2006 American Association for True Life in God – Northwest Region Newsletter.
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My Kingdom will be taken away
from you to be given to a poor people,
a people who could not tell
their right hand from their left and
it will be to these wretches
I shall confer My New Name
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