Do you love well?

Someone has described a saint as an extravagant lover of God and people.

Just listened to a CD of J. Heron who works in Vancouver's east side (along with 84 other not for profit groups) who asked those at the Mosaic church planting conference, (and all those who will have heard it by CD - "Do you love well?"

When Paul was finally accepted by the apostles after 14 years (Galatians 2:1-10), the only thing they challenged this former persecutor of Christians and keeper of the law - "Continue to remember the poor".

James 1:27 "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world". We have sometimes majored on the latter and forgotten the former.

I have really been challenged about fathers and children, my relationship with my children, and specifically sons, who may one day become fathers, and with my father.

Honouring our father and mother is huge - the one commandment with a promise - long life at that.

J. Heron says 80% of those who suffer in the east side of Vancouver are foster children. I wonder how many spiritual foster children we have.

There's a link here -loving God well, loving our kids, and parents well, loving the poor well. The church should be leading the way.....

It takes courage, looking inside, looking at our past, looking at Jesus, and then looking at others.

God help me to love well - I am loved well by you - may my heart and mind and body unite in affirmation of this truth.