I was driving through a neighborhood in St. Louis recently that is in great poverty. It is also a very dangerous neighborhood that ranks highly in national crime statistics. I stopped at a light and looked to my left where I saw a large mural on the side of an abandoned building of an African-American urban male, hat on backwards, baggy jeans, etc. The book he was reading in the mural said 'Holy Bible' on the cover, and tagged nicely in script the phrase "Read your Bible every day." There's a Christian bookstore down there that we should frequent.
Then at church on Sunday while we were taking communion together as the body, we could hear the children singly faintly from the floor below us. They were "God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me."
Lastly, we are getting new neighbors tomorrow from Argentina. They are coming with nothing but two suitcases and their two kids. Some people came together to give them things for their apartment, and now it is full of stuff. Someone even donated a car! I pray that my heart will grow into one of this kind of service and selflessness.
God bless you this Advent season!
mandm
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