Dear Family,
Hello! Things are going great, I am reading many books at the moment. I am reading Heidi Baker's "Compelled by Love", which is about expressing great love to all around you.
Its good so far. I understand her realization of our Western civilization filled materialism, so filled that it is tough for us to truly care for each other.
She lives in Africa and is always surrounded by people who know truly how to care for a human being. Affectionate love. Its good so far and is making me rethink how I reach out to people.
I am not sure really how to evangelize at the moment because I am reading which it is making me rethink how I am interacting with many people. Its a good thing! I am grate full to realize areas of my social life that need a change because it will reach more people for the kingdom of God.
"When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. We have refused to be instruments of love in the hands of God to give the poor a piece of bread, to offer them a dress which to ward off the cold. It has happened because we did not recognize Christ when, once more, He appeared under the guise of pain, identified with a man numb from the cold, dying of hunger, when He came in a lonely human being, in a lost child in search of a home." --Mother Teresa
I want to take care of Christ, if it means welcoming people in my arms to embrace them then I must. I am sure you all are doing this in some way, I am too, I would just like to see more of it in my life.
This quote is directed towards the homeless, poor communities in the world but its goes for the spiritual poor too. I see more of this then I do poor here in Boston.
I wounder if I should lose more things to ask for more help from others to allow others to experience giving more or something? I don't know. I would like to just get invovled in peoples lives more and care for others, be a friend to many to take care of Christ.
Yes, I am a dreamer. : D
Anyways!
Last night I went sledding with a my co-workers in YWAM it was so much fun!
There was 6 of us and 5 of us got onto on sled and rode down the hill, it was so great!
A friend of mine also kicked me in the butt hole....it hurt but I was so shocked I laughed greatly!
Thanks for reading.
Jordan
does it really mean spiritually poor? Or is that what we like to tell ourselves so it doesn't hurt as much to realize we are really doing nothing at all for the kin-dom of God?
ReplyDeleteA question I have been thinking about for a while.
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Yeah, that is a great question.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts and emotions shake because I wounder if I am involved in all of this just to "feel" important, like I am doing something to build the kingdom up with God yet at the end of the day there are people who are grate full to run in to this team. I sincerely hope God is meeting them and this team is not wasting time. I am sure to an extent we do waste time with all the meetings we have about living "holy" (which I differ from them on)
Yeah, but still maybe all of this is hopeless and a lost cause. Maybe everyone is just fine and it truly is us (the missionaries) who have the problem because we make up this system to make ourselves important to receive attention from the world and not God. We use club language like "spiritual poor", and every one nods in agreement because we all supposedly know what it means but truly have no clue.
I will ask this question and check all my motives. As well question if this is worth doing, living for. Thanks for the push to think more, its nothing new to think about but something really worth looking in to. At the end of it all its the kingdom of God.