Hey RIG family. Wednesday’s word is influence. It gets a lot of generic use in our culture. Today, however, I’m thinking specifically about the influence we want to have with family and friends to encourage them to build their lives on Christ, the Solid Rock. We can and we should use our words to tell them about Jesus. We can and we should give them Bibles and take them to church. But, absolutely nothing influences them more than having a front row seat to our lives and watching us draw strength, joy, guidance, and comfort from Jesus in real-time. To quote the late Antoine de Saint Exupéry, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Hugs, Shellie