August 19, 2013 Commentary to Henri Nouwen's Daily Meditation

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Dear Friends,
I still want to share these devotions with you here.  Today's Nouwen, makes me think about the crisis of poverty in America.I never forgot a couple years back, there was an awareness advertisement for people struggling to survive.  There were no announcers more than there was a young mother quickly running through a McDonalds and stealing several packets of ketchup to then take home & make pasta for her young son.  After airing perhaps once or twice that month the ad disappeared.  Without diving into politics which seems to be the "new trend" of being called to compassionate justice...  Can you, in keeping Christ as the Lord of your life, center of your heart--imagine what you could just simply do in loving God and neighbor?  Beyond petitions & faceless bureaucracy--tuning the attennae of your heart to those around you is more what God wants us to do.  To begin, however, will take turning and opening your heart to the Spirit, allow the Spirit to "fill" your potential spiritual poverty with intentionality built upon your ever-going, ever-growing faith in God.
God Bless Your Mondays~
Nicole Collins