Anyway

Anyway

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred……

LOVE THEM ANYWAY

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives….

DO GOOD ANYWAY

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies…..

SUCCEED ANYWAY

The good you do will be forgotten tomorrow…..

DO GOOD ANYWAY

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable…..

BE HONEST AND FRANK ANYWAY

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight….

BUILD ANYWAY

People really need help, but may attack you if you help them….

HELP PEOPLE ANYWAY

Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth

GIVE THE WORLD THE BEST YOU’VE GOT………….ANYWAY

~From a sign in Mother Teresa's children's home of Shushu Bhavan, Calcutta, India

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Food for the Soul

Nutritionists frequently advise the public that the best quality foods can be traced to their origin.  In other words, the fresher, least processed and least chemically altered the food is, the better it is for you.  This same advice can apply to our spiritual journeys.  We as spiritual people, as those appointed to care for God’s creation, have a need to nourish ourselves with good spiritual practices.  Meditating, reflecting, and acting upon God’s Word is a natural and fresh place to start a healthy spiritual diet.  Ideally all our religious laws and spiritual rules emanate from the Word—the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us.  When our rules have become too processed, if they do not reflect the Spirit or Jesus’ teachings that they come from, then they are like empty food and are unable to sustain or nourish the Body of Christ.

The Body of Christ is centered and founded on the love that Jesus shares and teaches about.  Over and over the scriptures testify to the Love of God for the world and that this Love is at the center of the Gospel message.  God’s Word of Love experienced in the Scripture is calls us to action; it calls us to live God’s blessing for others in ways that move far beyond a superficial sentimentality. Such action seeks to look at creation and all people on this earth as God’s sacred expression of love.  When we allow thoughts and words to be nourished by this reality of God’s Word growing out of his Love, we in turn become nourishment for the world in our behaviors.  By our actions, we make God’s Love incarnate, and it becomes spiritual nourishment for those we encounter.  God’s good Word lived out in my faith-filled actions, becomes the fertile soil in where others find a place to grow, and a place to be nourished.  May your actions be your neighbor’s soul food today and always.
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