THE SERVICE OF ROYALTY

Hi :)

Downton Abbey.

Yup.  Got yer attention, huh?  Whooo-hoooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!  LOL 
 
The other week I was watching an episode with my Mom at her house.  One of the story lines has to do with the mother of Matthew Crawley, Isobel Crawley (a widow, not re-married), reaching out to unfortunate ladies and giving them a second/third chance to get off the streets/poverty, and giving them a path to see there's a life outside all that carnage.  Then one former maid of Downton Abbey shows up on the scene as a prostitute, and its Isobel (who is of royalty) that remembers and persues her and wants to help her in any way she can.  Everyone else at Downton is trying to "get rid" of this maid who is the cause of gossip.  I looked at my Mom and said, "I really love Isobel.  I love her character and how she is courageously reaching out to people who are so stricken and kicked around by everyone else.  I love how she willingly extends them a second chance in life and stands up for them when no one else will."

 

Well, thinking about it on my walk today, that's exactly how Jesus lived.  Everyday.  The King gave people His time showing them unconditional love and acceptance, no matter their faults.  He hung around the "unfathomable" tax collectors and sinners that everyone else would point to and look down upon. Even when 10 lepers came to Him and asked Jesus to heal them, only ONE out of the 10 lepers came back to thank Him...He already knew it, but He healed all of them anyway.  GRACE.  And then He died for EVERYONE and defeated death.  Unconditional love.  I want to be that every day for the kids and beautiful people in Macedonia. That is my prayer.

SO, on the Masterpiece Theater website, there is a link to take this silly test to see how you would be best suited to serve at Downton Abbey.  I was thinking, hhmmmm.....would I be the Lead Maid at Downton, or Mary Crawley's maidservant (then I could be married to BATES!!!) or the short, chunky, lady cook?  LOL--  I SUURREEE didn't want to be Carson or Ms. O'Brien ...LOL !!!  So I took the multiple choice test and the answers to choose from were so off the wall I wasn't sure how to answer many of the questions - but I chose the BEST possible answers.  Finally, I received my result: they showed me I was best suited for.....Isobel's service.

I smiled... 
Had no idea they were including the service of royalty. Hhmmmmm....

Here are people doing the same thing for women and young ladies-
In Georgia:  www.wellspringliving.com
In India: www.saribari.com
In Australia, Greece, and Ukraine:  www.theA21Campaign.org

----Елизабет
"Come to Macedonia and help us."  ACTS 16:9