Loving People

1. I'm going crazy with excitement that Shin will be home soon. Please pray for him as he makes his 36 hour trip home and readjusts to Alabama (time, weather, food, etc.).

2. God (and my pastor) has been teaching me about loving people...

C.S. Lewis says, "There are no 'ordinary' people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations -- these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whome we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit -- immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously -- no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner -- no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."

I hope my actions towards others can become increasingly informed by an understanding of eternity and that I would not brush people off as temporal and insignificant.

For more: http://www.downshoredrift.com/downshoredrift/2012/01/cs-lewis-on-what-we-will-one-day-be.html

Or 'The Weight of Glory' by C.S. Lewis (which I have only read bits of)