Responding to His Call

"To become neighbors is to BRIDGE THE GAP between people. As long as there is distance between us we cannot look into one another's eyes. We forget that they love as we love, care for their children as we care for ours, become sick and die as we do. We forget they are our BROTHERS and SISTERS." - HENRI NOUWEN

“It is a response to a CALL... A Call from HIM who has no voice, and yet Who speaks in everything that is, and Who, most of all, speaks in the depths of our own being… For we ourselves are words of His. But we are words that are meant to respond to Him, to answer to Him, to echo Him, and even in some way to contain Him and signify Him…”
- THOMAS MERTON

“If we want HUMILITY, we should condescend to all the weaknesses and infirmities of your fellow-creatures, cover their frailties, love their excellencies, encourage their virtues, relieve their wants, rejoice in their prosperities, compassionate their distress, receive their friendship, overlook their unkindness, forgive their malice, be a servant of servants, and condescend to do the lowest offices to the lowest of mankind.” - "CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE"

My PRAYER for each of us tonight, is that He would continue to strip us of anything & everything which is about us, so that our lives would be a direct reflection of Him, would continue to respond out of selfless obedience to His Call... as it continues to lead us…choosing to hear HIS voice, rather than to live as slaves to the voice of the world....walking by Faith, & not ruled any longer by fear.... that He would continue to work out His will in our lives, one day at a time…maturing in our hearts, a Divine Wisdom like that of King Solomon, Absolute Trust unconditional of circumstance like Joseph, a Faith as we step forward & out into the unknown like Abraham, a Passion & Commitment to share God’s Word like Paul…and ultimately, a HEART after God’s own heart, like King David....

WE NEED AFRICA MORE THAN AFRICA NEEDS US...

PRAY BIG...!

in HIM,

Drew