Megan, a friend who is living with us for a couple of months, challenged me with the idea of raising our daughter to live to give. It is a total mind shift but I believe a biblical one. "You shall love your neighbor as yourself", is pretty far reaching. I have to admit that I do a lot more for myself than those who have greater needs around me. So in a small way we began to love our neighbors. We needed bread so we made some for us and some for our neighbors. Calissa had a blast and talked about her little friends next door and across the street who were going to receive the bread. We made it a little more special than usual.
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| I need to get a food marker to draw eyes on next time. |
On a little more serious note, I have been thinking a lot about the way we live for awhile.
I have curtains, a couch, plenty of food, toilet paper etc. There are many around the world who are dying from lack of food and I have the ability to help if I were to love them... I could go with a lot less so that they might have life. I know I can't afford to feed all the hungry in the world but I can feed some, I can love some. What if I spent just as much on others as I do myself?
