This final week of Advent, here in Nicaragua, we hung our 35-year-old banner of love. It is a Haitian mother holding her baby.
For God so loved the world…the WORLD…that He gave His Begotten Son. - John 3:16A
Jesus taught us how to love. He taught us how to be servants to one another…
- To care for the poor
- To heal the sick
- To free the oppressed
- To touch the untouchables
- To turn the other cheek
- To love our neighbor as ourselves…
And to do all of that we have to love this world and care for it, because…
- The poor suffer most in droughts, floods, hurricanes, and all the natural disasters that are growing
- The sick population is getting sicker with mosquitos multiplying, with unnatural heat ways, and pollution in the air affecting breathing, pollution in the food, soil, and water making people sick
- The peoples who are losing their homes, and are oppressed by rising seawaters, need freedom to make new homes or not lose their homes at all
- Many immigrants are considered unwanted and as climate change progresses, we have to touch them and welcome them
- Turning the other cheek re climate change means doing what is right whether other nations are doing it or not
- And loving our neighbor as our ourselves… well, look at the above and do WE want to be in those shoes… No.
Love means doing what is right by those who suffer.
-Kathleen
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