By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. John 13:35
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these." Mark 12:30-31
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Hebrews 10:24
Wow. If our world ever needed Jesus more in my lifetime it’s right now. I know that darkness cannot overcome darkness without light. I want to urge us all to be the light in this dark world! We cannot debate someone into knowing the love of Jesus. We can’t force them into knowing Him. We can’t argue and try to rationalize away someone’s pain, fear and life experiences. But we can BE THE LIGHT! We can LOVE others as Jesus loves us. We can be HIS hands and feet by showing up and listening and helping. Our world is hurting. We’ve been faced with some of the greatest challenges in many years-as a globe! There’s so much fear and anxiety. Add to that racial inequalities that have sadly long existed but are being brought to the surface and we’ve got an infected, open wound for much of our country and the globe. Jesus is our healer!
I encourage you to look above the mess below. Look UP! Look to Jesus!! He is our anchor. He is our hope! The best way we have to change the world is to change ourselves! Our aim is to be like Jesus!! I’m blessed to say that’s what the mission of Give Amore has always been-to be the hands and feet of Jesus to our brothers and sisters across the globe and to always, always preach the gospel and when necessary, we use words. (Thank you St. Francis of Assisi for those beautiful words).
We pray for our generous givers, we pray for all of the lives we’re impacting in Kenya (and here through the blessing of generosity) and we pray for our entire world. We’re in the messy middle of change but it will bring a beautiful, much needed transformation to many lives!
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Your Sister in Christ,
