Posts Tagged ‘giving’
Juárez: From the children, For the community
This is the truth: unless you change and become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3 We are indescribably thrilled about the tailoring initiative that just began here in our Colonia Palo Chino. I have been undone by the extravagant excitement behind this project, the [...]
August 31st, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Hope for the Poor: Vital Vitamins
Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless [...]
January 23rd, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Uncomfortable Beauty
When someone strips a man of his clothes, we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not – should not he be given the same name? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot [...]
January 28th, 2011 by Misty Lindsey