If you have spent anytime with me in the last couple of years you hopefully have realized by now that God has placed a burden on my heart to love . LOVE. Not judge, not fix, not feel sorry for, just to love them. Pretty basic right? NOT! We have a hard enough time showing the ones we love the most how we love them. How many times have we been impatient with a spouse or a friend? Love is patient. (Confession-I'm not always) Ever snap at someone you care about? Love is kind. God has been calling me to love in a sacrificial way not a superficial way. Disney makes love look so easy but that is a fairy tale not real life.
I had thought I had done a good job of loving but I was beginning to realize I loved when it was easy. When it was convenient. I thought I was doing a good job of loving those people I saw around me but I was blind. There were people all around me in pain that i had never seen before. I felt bad for people but never loved them. Praying wasn't enough anymore. Talking about it isn't enough. It was a call to action.
I no longer see people in the same way. I still see faces but I now see the hunger in their eyes. Not for food but for love. This isn't about helping the homeless or the poor, the single mom, or the widow. It is about loving everyone. Yes that is the homeless but it is also the lady tat takes your order at Froggers. It is also the church member who sits on the second row, the wealthy client who over tips you. We are in a world that is starving to be loved. Can you see it?
