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Look for small doors that the Holy Spirit opens to share your faith
Our family loves Miss Bobbi. For the past six years, when we’re outside, inevitably, Miss Bobbi ventures across the street for three huge kid hugs and the latest neighborhood news. She’s a gift to our family, and I believe we are a blessing to her too. Recently, these exchanges have looked and felt different. Air hugs have replaced real hugs, COVID-19 has trumped Michigan basketball discussions, and a relationship that once complemented other familial bonds has turned into a relational lifeline.
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Who are you being called to weep with? In a season of quarantine, uncertainty, Who should you forgive? Who needs a social distance and fear, how are disciples prayer for healing? Who can you provide called to respond? In particular, what does for? Who needs to hear the truth in love? it look like to grow and go during this Whose life should you put before your own? unprecedented time? I think it’s focusing on PETE BURAK The Holy Spirit will inspire us if we ask the basics. All growth and all evangelization is the director of these questions, he will give us the wisdom start with authentic love. The expansion of i.d.9:16. He has a to know how to respond and the strength to our ability to love is critical for us to have master’s degree see it through. While we must take advanany chance of making disciples during a in theology, and tage of this time to grow closer to Jesus and time of isolation. is a frequent detach from many of the things that distract Jesus said in John 13:34-35, “A new comspeaker at events us, we cannot pause our missionary activity. mandment I give to you, that you love one anfor youth and Evangelization is vitally important, because other, even as I have loved you, that you also young adults. Christianity’s bold claims about life, death love one another. By this all men will know and salvation shine brightest when things that you are my disciples, if you have love for are darkest. Let’s commit ourselves to loving one another.” Jesus tells us that others will heroically both in and out of our homes. know we are his if we love each other — not Let’s be looking for small doors the Holy Spirit opens on our terms, but based on his example. So how did Jesus to share the source of our joy and the freedom of love? He wept with those who were mourning (Martha Christ’s Lordship. and Mary). He extended healing and forgiveness (through The world needs us. Miss Bobbi needs us, even if his miracles). He made wine (the Wedding at Cana). He all we can offer, right now, is a smile and three masspoke the truth even it was rejected or hard to hear. (Jn 6). sive air hugs. Ultimately, he laid down his life for his friends. FAITH Magazine | JUNE 2020 | WWW.FAITHMAG.COM
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