Serving While Vacationing by Sharon Connell

It’s that time again for most people. Summer is approaching and vacations are being planned. That used to be the routine for me as well. However, becoming a full-time writer has changed things. Not to mention the past year of concern over Covid-19. Also, being retired makes vacation a little unnecessary for us. I guess you could say we’re on a permanent staycation. But we love our home, so that’s okay for us.

When I used to plan a vacation, my service to our Lord was automatically planned into it. I packed gospel tracts to give out wherever I could to whoever would accept them. Will I ever know what good they did? Not until I get to my final home in heaven. I prayed over those tracts. And someday, someone may walk up to me on those streets of gold and say, “It was that tract you gave me that led me to The Throne of Grace. Thank you.”

Oh, what a glorious thought that is to me. If only one of those tracts were used by God to lead someone to Him, it will be worth it all.

Today, because we don’t take a normal vacation like everyone else, I make sure I have those gospel tracts with me to hand out wherever I happen to go, be it the doctor’s office or the grocery store.

Service for our Lord doesn’t stop when you go on vacation as it does for your employer. And the benefits someday will be out of this world.

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11 King James 1611 Bible)

Sharon Connell

Author, Sharon K. Connell lives in Houston, Texas from where she writes Christian Romance Suspense, containing a bit of mystery and as much humor as she can get into a story. She’s also written many award-winning short stories in a variety of genres.

Sharon attended college in Illinois, graduated from the Pensacola Bible Institute in Florida, and holds a certificate in fiction writing from the International Writing Program through the University of Iowa.

She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers, Scribes Critique Group, Houston Writers Guild, and CyFair Writers. She is also the founder of the global Facebook Christian Writers & Readers group forum. Her monthly newsletter, Novel Thoughts, goes out every month to its subscribers in all parts of the world.

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