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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Willingness (02/21/05)
The word "willingness" brings many rhetorical questions to my mind.

Am I willing to react to the situation with unconditional love and express total compassion?
Am I willing to forgive and forget the hurtful acts of cruelty without passing judgment?
Am I willing to help someone in the mist of a crowd that glories in ignorance?
Am I willing to give clothes to someone without expecting anything in return?
Am I willing to be a blessing to the very people that envy me?
Am I willing to be all that I can be even when society would prefer that I be a "people-pleaser" for the sake of their reputation?

I do not know about you, but when I think about the word "willingness", a scripture comes to mind—let he that has no sin, cast the first stone.
To some people, this may not seem to fit with the topic, but let me ask you this question; what are you willing to give up for your brother or sister in Christ?

Or –

Are you going to—?
Allow selfishness to rule
Have a nasty attitude
Utter deceitful words
Deny ever seeing their need

I do not know about you, but I find myself asking the question what can I do (today) to make God smile.
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Deborah Parker
02/28/05
Good, but it sounded like a sermon.
donna robinson
03/03/05
Sermon? Perhaps but all good stories has one there somewhere! But what I liked about the take on this one was that you didn't just say, "this is what you do to be willing like forgive someone" but that you took it further, to forgive totally without malice etc. Now that is the true heart of willingness and what makes it so difficult.
Phyllis Inniss 
03/07/05
You have put it well. It's not what you can do, but what you are willing to do, and what you are willing to do to make your Lord smile. That is enough.