“You can read to me, if you want to.”

“If you want to, you can rub some of this on my back.”

If I want to.

They each knew I could. The question wasn’t about that.

Like this:

“And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean” (Matthew 8:2).

Jesus’ answer?

“I will” (Matthew 8:3).

When the child needs some attention or the disabled needs some help, let me choose a willing heart.

And where I lack the sincere “want to” — well, let me do what’s right anyway.

Posted November 12. I just got home from my third mission trip to Mexico in two months. And in two days I’m to leave on another one!

I talk a lot sometimes.

Other times I write a lot.

So I suppose lots of people think they know me.

I’m glad they hear what I say and read what I write, but . . . .

“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” (Matthew 7:16).

What kind of fruit am I producing?

What results from my talking and my writing and my living?

“Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:20).

That’s why I ask, “What am I?”

Not posted til November 11. A few days ago I got home from my third mission trip to Mexico in two months. I leave on another one in several days!