Dish-Washing Discoveries

With the noise and bustle of the kitchen and dining room around us, Mel and I start the dishes together after lunch one day. I wash, she dries. Mel is a new friend, a lovely lady who has two young sons and a kind and wonderful husband. She and I are talking as women do about motherhood, babies, our joys and our struggles. We are talking about how we try to control everything for ourselves and for our children and how often God has to remind us that He is actually in control.
As we are sharing it strikes me how we have many commonalities and yet we are so very different. Mel is from Asia and I am from the United States. Our cultures are drastically different from each other and our experiences are so very different, yet we have many similarities, many shared joys and shared struggles.
God made us both. He made us for Him. He made us both to need Him; His love, His grace, His joy, His forgiveness and His salvation. God made all of us and within all of us is a need for God. Here is a secret, when our family decided to become missionaries, I was uncomfortable with the Family Missions Company charism of evangelization. I did not really know what it meant and what it meant for me. Through many teachings, studying of the Bible and Church documents, I have discovered that I should not be afraid to share this gift of Jesus with others, this gift of eternal life. We, as humans, do have a variety of experiences and yet at our core don't we all have the same struggles, same joys, the same needs?  God wanted each of us to know Him and to know His plan.
God has destined us for acquiring salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us,  that all of us, whether awake or asleep, together might live with Him. - 1 Thess 5:9-10
If I truly believe in God's plan for my eternal salvation, shouldn't I not only be willing, but actually be seeking opportunities to invite others to know this gift, this love, this plan of ever lasting life?