Love is the Mission

"Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone”.  This was part of what I heard from our pastor on Sunday. Mother Teresa said, “If you can't feed one hundred people then feed one”.  This takes so much pressure off because I don't have to try to change the world, but it causes me to know that I do have to move.  Do something for someone.  There are no more excuses.   We have so many distractions in our lives: jobs to go to, meals to prepare, children or elderly parents to care for and marriages to build. As well as the things we don't necessarily need to do but spend hours on like social media, movies, television and video games.  We can feel like we don't have time to visit the neighbor, bake the load of bread for the friend or invite the overwhelmed family of young children over for supper.   I am in the midst of struggling to find balance.  I want to love my family, friends, coworkers and neighbors well but as an...

As Americans, we take so much for granted.  The car we drive to the job we get paid for. The cup of coffee we enjoy in a heated coffee shop on a cold day. The store we go to to purchase anything from clothes, to food, to towels or home decor. The food we have on our tables each day (many times being thrown out because we don't like leftovers). The clean water we drink. The schools our children attend beginning at the age of 5 through 18 at no cost, where teachers are paid to invest in our children, nurses are there to take care of our children, cooks are there to feed our children. That may be the normal in the United States but it's not in many other areas of our world.  If we own a car we are in the top 30% of the wealthiest people in the world.  If we can purchase a cup of specialty coffee or tea, we are spending what some people earn in one week. One week! While we sit in a warm shop or our homes, an estimated 79% of people have no electricity and rely on wood or...