Our Neighbor

The calling to love
to be a good neighbor
unbound by any dividing line
because Christ tore them down

Everyone we meet
everyone alive
all of them our neighbor
to be loved, in God’s eyes

How much differently
would we really act
if we measured the world
by this commandment of God

Not just the generic words
the easy text of the law
but living these words
in the chaos of the world

In those dark roads
where we truly fear to tread
in the back alleys and ditches
on the fringe of our lives

Further yet, all around the globe
people crying out in suffering
how often we fail to heed
our savior’s call

Love remaining,
for God and for man
all encompassing
in servanthood, agape love
grace to our fellow man


July 8, 2010
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 and
Poem, “That Part”, by Frank Kagulire,
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=142931035717367
and the Facebook comments that followed
July 8, 2010
&
Luke 10:29-37
Luke 10:25-28
Luke 10:25-37
The Good Samaritan
&
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Alive Now Daily Reflections
http://alivenow.upperroom.org/daily-reflections/daily-reflections-for-july-5-11/
for July 5, 2010 to July 11, 2010
by Nancy Ferguson (You can visit her website at www.BlueTreeResources.org)
for July 7, 2010
July 7, 2010
&
Luke 10:25-28
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Alive Now Daily Reflections
http://alivenow.upperroom.org/daily-reflections/daily-reflections-for-july-5-11/
for July 5, 2010 to July 11, 2010
by Nancy Ferguson (You can visit her website at www.BlueTreeResources.org)
for July 5, 2010
read July 6, 2010, reread July 7, 2010


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