Jesus didn't call it "social justice." He simply called it love. If we would only love our neighbors beyond comfort, borders, race, religion, and other differences that we've allowed to be barriers, "social justice" would be a given. Love makes justice happen.
It is love that calls us into being,and it is love that calls us home.For God is love, and love is the dance of eternity.
I'm very uglySo don't try to convince me thatI am a very beautiful personBecause at the end of the dayI hate myself in every single wayAnd I'm not going to lie to myself by sayingThere is beauty inside of me that mattersSo rest assured I will remind myselfThat I am a...
Normal day,let me be aware of the treasure you are.Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.One day I shall dig my nails into...
It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
Love life. Engage in it.Give it all you've got.Love it witha passion because lifereally does give back,many times over,what you put into it.
Yearly reminder: There is no resolution that, if kept, will make you more worthy of love. You, as your actual self, and not as some made-up ideal, are already worthy.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love. from Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Telling people that God loves them is good theology. Showing people that you love them is what transforms the world.
If you wake up at 3:00 in the morning, still angry about something you saw on social media, and if, in the heat of the moment, you reach for your smart phone, take off the safety, and switch the setting to all caps, stop and ask yourself: W.W.J.T? (“What would Jesus...