Pens and pencils

pencils

Photo by tookapic [CC0]

Petra Showalter lives and serves in Ecuador with Journey International, a Mennonite Mission Network program. Her original post can be found
here.

I am here in Elkhart for a few days before flying to Ecuador. We have some sessions as teams until we leave. One of our activities was to write an original parable. I thought it would be nice to share it here.

God’s people are like pens and pencils. We are not the ones writing, but let the hands of God write through us. We come in all varieties for different purposes. Some are bold, make shadowing, flow smoothly, are colorful, or highlight things others have written. Some create intricate pieces of artwork while others make paragraphs of information. God needs to use all of us to communicate to the world.