I was talking with a sweet woman yesterday. She’s recently retired as a BSF leader after 40 some odd years. We were discussing ministry efforts and how it can be difficult to give the reigns up to someone else.
She said to me, “I just found out I’m a donkey.”
I looked at her puzzled, and her daughter looked at her even more so.
“Mom, what are you talking about!?” 
She said, thinking she may have just lost her mind.
She smiled and winked at her daughter and turned back to me.
“I just recently found out I’m a donkey!” She continued.
“You see, as a donkey, I came into town one day and everyone was cheering for me. They were waving branches and throwing down their cloaks. I was so happy and it felt really nice. Then it dawned on me that all the attention and cheers were not for me, but for One I was carrying.”
She finished by saying, “We can all be that donkey. We can begin to think that ministry belongs to us and that we deserve the cheers and recognition. We can be afraid to give the lead over to someone else, especially if we’ve led for many years. The fact is the ministry was never ours, the ministry really belongs to the One whose message we are carrying.”
Now that my friend is wisdom! I hope it spoke to someone the way it spoke to me! 
❤️❤️
Denise Matthews © 2017
Tethered Love 