Tuesday

Tonight is a slow night for a change and I was needing this. I was reading my daily devotion for today from 40 days of community and it talked about hospitality and using our homes to serve others. The surprising part for me was that hospitality comes from hospice and hospital. Shelter and healing....so appropriate. Sharon and I have decided to open up our home the first Friday evening of each month for games or movies for whomever wants to come and bring a friend. I am reminded that everything that I think I have, is not really mine. God has just blessed me with it for a short while to use for His glory.
Work is sorta crazy as one of our workers is retiring the last day of month and we will be short one worker. We are already swamped and are starting to have anxiety over how we will do it all. At times I get caught up in it all and worry just like everyone else but for the most part, I am trying to just do the best I can daily. My clients keep me humble and busy. I learn daily from them.
Love is required, not an option. I do well with loving the poor, the downtrodden but boy do I have a problem with loving know it alls and judgmental people. I have been thinking alot about who my "unloveables" are. At first I thought of sexual offenders or perverts but then I realized that I could love almost anyone. I think my greatest hurdle to love is those that hurt my children. I know it is possible but this sometimes seems insurmountable.......What makes this real to me is that I am probably someone elses "unloveables". And to God I am so unloveable but am loved just the same...Awesome stuff so as I continue this week, I will focus on expanding those that I demonstrate love to.