This week the sol café group will be spending our “worship time” moving food and filling hampers at the local Salvation Army food depot. It is a great organization, which does a lot of good work in our communities. It also features a great local blogger, Ian's Messy Desk.
I can so easily pretend and fool myself that I am loving God. I can not so easily fake loving my neighbour. That’s why the two great commandments go hand in hand. How can you love God whom you have not seen if you do not love your neighbor whom you do see? It is also a reminder that love is not a feeling, but an act of will.
God does not usually give us visible and tangible reminders that we are not loving Him. Our neighbours do. The presence of those who have less than us, is in itself a visible witness of inequality, of our affluence, of our lack of passion for loving our neighbours as ourselves.
Is loving my neighbour a form of worship?
It's a start.
5-7 pm; Sunday October 30; 9620-101 A ave
We sorted food the best we knew how, JJ was our guide, the kids moved crates and disposed of recycling. Closed in prayer with the new traditional closer. It was good.
was it worship? I would love it if it was. Was it serving our fellow man in need? maybe in a miniscule way. Was it done with the "most perfect attitude" probably not, (I don't know what that would be). Was it a start of something good? I sure hope so. I had fun, as others did, and I hope that we can just simply do something, I don't care what it looks like, just do something that helps.
Posted by: steve the z | October 31, 2005 at 11:41 AM