Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you.

Mark 5:16-20

As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. But Jesus refused, and said to him, "Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you." And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

If I want to know what Christ is calling me to do, I must humbly look at today, this seemingly ordinary day. No grandiose assignment. Today I stay close to home base to serve an elderly person, attend to some routine (seemingly mundane)tasks, complete some unfinished business.

I realize these are the regions of today's mission field. Somehow I am being asked to express God's love and compassion to the people and situations I will encounter. On the surface they seem trivial at best...or even distracting. After all....I have "important" things to do for Christ and His Church (or so my ego says...that voice that is so good at identifying my self-determined call!)

Today's scripture reminds me that my "call" is often in the common regions of my life ...the ordinary, everyday relationships. The place to serve, the mission field for today, is right before my eyes. If I look elsewhere to serve than with the people and places of today, I have lost my focus.