So we really love

 If there is one thing that we need more than anything right now is to be kind. I know it’s been said a lot T-shirts have been sold with slogans have begun but to really be kind is to want the best for every person we see I’ve come in contact with. We may not have to speak to them but you can send them your vibration of kindness and hope that  they will receive it

 The tree of life is visible but it’s roots go much deeper  we cannot see under the tree because the dirt layer prevents that and it is the dirt layer that sometimes prevents us from seeing the good in people 

Why Not?

We who claim the name of Christ and have not loved the unlovable are in a very great danger. We will be held accountable on the day of Judgment for allow these wonderful people in our lives to remain in a state of the unloved.

Withness

Faithful friends are life-saving medicine.
Sirach 6:16

For we all have come short of the Glory of God

Once I was young, now I am older, and I have seen much. I now know that we all fall short of God's Glory, but in many ways we have pleased our Father. He has loved us, touched us, and brought us comfort. We have given Him  problems, tears, our pain, and our hearts. He has called us His, we are Abba's children, loved by the power of all things. My heart only now knows this truth, my walk with my Father has not always been peaceful, much of my pain was caused by my unwillingness to listen to the voice of love. Now I am older and every day I listen for the voice of my beloved, for I am His, and He is mine. I am older and still I have much to learn from Abba, but this I know in His eyes I am still young.

For we all have come short of the Glory of God

For we all have come short of the Glory of God, yet knowing this does not stop me from pressing on to the higher calling of Christ. That calling is a never ending drive to love all of God's people. All is all, not just some but all, not the ones we love or like but all, not the one who followers just because we give nice words of kindness, but all.

The Cup of Life

When the mother of James and John asks Jesus to give her sons a special place in his Kingdom, Jesus responds, "Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?"Mat 20:22 Can we drink the cup? is the most challenging and radical question we can ask ourselves. The cup is the cup of life, full of sorrows and joys. Can we hold our cups and claim them as our own? Can lift our cups to offer blessings to others, and can we drink our cups to the bottom as cups that bring us salvation?

Keeping this question alive in us is one of the most demanding spiritual exercises we can practice.

We all must hold the cups of our lives. As we grow older and become more fully aware of the many sorrows of life--personal failures, family conflicts, disappointments in work and social life, and the many pains surrounding us on the national and international scene--everything within and around us conspires to make us ignore, avoid, suppress, or simply deny these sorrow. "look at the sunny side of life and make the best of it," we say to ourselves and hear others say to us. But when we want to drink the cups of our lives, we need first to hold them, fully acknowledge what we are living, trusting that by not avoiding but befriending our sorrows we will discover the true joy we are looking for right in the midst of our sorrows.

When we hold firm our cups of life, fully acknowledging their sorrows and joys, we will also be able to lift our cups in human solidarity. Lifting our cups means that we are not ashamed of what we are living, and this gesture encourages others to befriend their truth as we are trying to befriend ours. By lifting our cups and saying to one another, "to life" or "To your health," we proclaim that we are willing to look truthfully at our lives together. Thus, we can become a community of people encouraging one another to drink full the cups that have been given to us in the conviction that they will lead us to true fulfillment.

Baptism

Baptism is more than a way to spiritual freedom. It also is the way to community. Baptising a person, whether child or adult, is receiving that person into the community of faith. Those who are reborn from above through baptism, and are called to live the life of sons and daughters of God, belong together as members of one spiritual family, the living body of Christ. When we baptise people, we welcome them into this family of God and offer them guidance, support, and formation, as they grow to the full maturity of the Christ-like life.