love to the unloved

A big happy hello to everyone out in internet land! We have recently started a tee-shirt fundraiser to raise support for our travel expenses to/from and in South Africa (it's crazy to think that we have to live there for 6 weeks, but that is another story). The message is simple and quick to the point:

https://www.bonfirefunds.com/fund/craig-and-erins-adoption-fund


Show Love. Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? But in a world where it is now almost virtually impossible to see ‘good’ in the news – it’s pretty hard to believe that it can be that simple. But it is. I promise. It may not always feel easy, but it is pretty darn simple when you get down to it. Loving someone doesn’t require you to dote on them all the time. It doesn’t mean you have to buy things in order to gain their affection. Sometimes loving another individual is easy – you love them and want to show them how much you care for them. Appreciate them. Need them.


But other times – and you know you’ve been there… or are there… - it is hard. And sometimes it feels impossible. But love often times requires you to do the impossible. And sometimes that ‘impossible’ is the person you need to show love to.


Corrie ten Boom, a Christian Holocaust survivor, wrote in The Hiding Place:

                “And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.”

So in a world where tragic events unfold and lives are lost to hate, be that light that shows others that there is still love. There is still promise. And there is still hope. And hope does not disappoint.