Posts Tagged 'love'

Peru Christmas Part 2: Finding Love in Lima

All this week, we are sharing reflections & pictures from the team that just returned from Lima, Peru.  Their journey was part of an effort our community made to share gifts & hope with a community we’ve worked closely with for seven years.  After raising nearly $7000 between our group and others @ WBCC, we were able to buy Christmas gifts for kids in Lima, Pachacutec, and Iquitos.  We also bought two brand new moto-taxis as sources of income and employment for the church and those they reach-out to.  Finally, we completed funding several smaller infrastructure projects that weren’t yet finished at El Shaddai.

FINDING LOVE IN LIMA                     Shaya Lawrence

As I reflect on this last trip to Peru, and on the Advent season I have noticed a common theme this year for me. I realize it is an often talked about theme, however it is one that to me is the most mysterious, most difficult to truly grasp, and one in which will take the rest of my life to seek and still may never comprehend even a little of what it is. The theme is Love. I have always truly struggled with this word/feeling/action contemplating; what does it mean to Love? Continue reading ‘Peru Christmas Part 2: Finding Love in Lima’

ordinary love

mother-teresaDo not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.”   -Mother Teresa

tolstoy on love

tolstoy1Love is God.  Therefore, love!  Love even the one who has caused you pain, the one who is to blame.  Then everthing that conceals his soul from you will disappear, and you will, as through clear water, see at the bottom of his soul the divine essence of his love.  And you will not have to, nor will you be able to, forgive him, for you will be compelled to pardon only yourself for not having loved God in him, for not having seen God through the absence of your love

Love is the manifestation within oneself of God.  It is the propensity to get beyond oneself, to liberate oneself by living a God-centered existence.  This very propensity calls forth God-  that is, love for and in others.  For love evokes love in others.  God, having awakened in me, also produces the awakening of the same God in others.

-Leo Tolstoy

love, relationships, & the church? PART 1

e00011294Last week, we featured a link to a RELEVANT article, which among other things, gave one man’s reflection on the scene of love and relationships in the context of the church.  Starting today, we’re going to feature your responses to a set of questions on this topic.  The questions will remain the same, but each day we’ll have a different person respond.  Single, Married, and everything in between…. we’re hoping to create some meaningful dialogue and share some varied wisdom out of our community in this area!  TODAY, ROBERT “BOBBY” MASCARENAS weighs in:

1. Describe for us generally your “status” (single, dating, engaged, married) and maybe your relationship story in a sentence or phrase (in a long term relationship, don’t date much, have gone out with lots of people, married your HS sweetheart, etc.)

Single – Just got out of a long-term relationship.

2. What was your general reaction to Tim Holland’s experience in his relevant article, “I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Where Did it Go?”?

I found myself Continue reading ‘love, relationships, & the church? PART 1′

Thoughts to Ponder…

Obedience and duty without love can kill the soul and desire unrestrained by obedience and duty can kill love – the very aim of the desire to begin with. 


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