My role.

We watched and talked about this video in class one day.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBaHPND2QJg)

This is the way I look at my participation:

The orchestra played for one little girl. It sounded like she put a few coins into the hat. I’m going to assume she didn’t put much in. So they played for what she had. The orchestra did not wait for more money before bringing out more instruments. (Now, maybe more people put money in, and quite possibly the little girl was a plant, but let’s look at what we do see, not speculate about what we don’t. Because after all, that’s God’s job, not ours.) What we see is one small girl throwing a few coins into the hat and being rewarded for it with a full symphony and choir. WOAH.

In this scenario, I think ITeams, and therefore me, could be the little girl. We show up, and we invest the little that we have, and then God shows up in magnificent, faithful ways. It’s not us who cause the music, it’s God.

I think ITeams could also be a piece of the orchestra. I don’t want ITeams to get credit for being the whole thing. I think ITeams would be a violin, or the timpani, or a soprano singer. We are one piece of what God is doing around the world. And we show up for the one girl. We show up for a few cents.

We could even be the crowd, showing up to get to witness what God, the music, does for the little girl.

But I think we are probably a violin.

That’s how I see it, and it gives me great hope.