Compassion is the consequence of salvation.

My friend Erin has shared a beautifully written and thought out post. It describes what I have been feeling lately on many levels. Please take a minute to read it HERE.

Orphan Sunday

Today is Orphan Sunday…an event to bring awareness to the millions of children worldwide without a family or place to call home. I can’t help but think about our own little one today. I often think about her mama and what an immense decisions she is about to make. I wonder if she is safe, healthy, or frightened. I pray for them both daily.

Let’s face it-the bubble I have been living in has burst. And I am so thankful it has. For a while now, something has been itching to change inside of me. I am tired of living like a selfish Christian…..seems like an oxymoron, huh?

It is a constant struggle for me, but it started with the notion that if I love God, and I love people, shouldn’t my life reflect that? The passion I feel for orphans now has grown in ways I never expected. I don’t know where, or how, or when, but I have to do something to bring awareness to the needs of these kids. I have to serve in someway. These kids are overseas, but also right in your own town. There is a HUGE need for loving people to step up and care for them through adoption, through fostering, orphan sponsorship, or by supporting a family that is or has adopted.

How many of us need to be challenged to step outside of the bubble we live in?

James 1:22-27 (New International Version)

²² Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. ²³Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴ and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵ But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
²⁶ Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. ²⁷ Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.