Welcome to the latest 31 Day Writing Project. For 31 days we will join together and share information about how to love our neighbor. Our topic,”Why The Neighbor You Serve Probably Should Not Look Like You” will cover who is our neighbor and how we can serve each other. Our focus will be on “Making a Difference in your Community-No Racism Allowed!”
In this series, we will consider many thoughts about “our brother” and “our sister”. We will discuss ways in which we can see our neighbors differently. Hopefully we can understand how each of us want to be loved for who we are. We will talk about how we can indeed love others as ourselves.
Please stay with me for 31 days as we share some commonalities. This will allow us to work in an effort to move forward in true love.
This Series Will Include:
Day 1~ Introduction- Our Nation Divided
Day 2~ Why the neighbor you serve probably should not look like you
Day 3~ All People Were Created Equal
Day 4~ Seeing Self~Begging God
Day 5~ In Pursuit of Holiness
Day 6~ How God Moves
Day 7~ He Who Knows Your Real Heart
Day 8~ Religion vs. Christianity
Day 9~ How To Get To Heaven (Really)
Day 10~ When We Realize Something’s Really Wrong With Us
Day 11~ It’s Not About What We Do. It’s About What Was Done For Us
Day 12~ Anything Less Than Perfection is Hell Bound (ouch!)
Day 13~ True Christianity on Display
Day 1~
Our nation is divided. The division is obvious. It has affected the fabric of some of the largest organizations of our land. There is fussing and feuding on the air waves. Our government cannot seem to agree on things. Those who protect us find lack of support. Those whom are protected feel disenfranchised. The national hallmarks of our day are being stigmatized and negated. The national past times show great division. Groups are angry and find themselves protesting. Laws of the land are in jeopardy of support. Atheist clubs are growing in rapid numbers. Now atheism is being introduced into the elementary aged schools in the form of clubs.
The great America finds itself at a crossroads of learning how to again really see others as our neighbors. The question has been, “will Americans break down the important commonalities that hold us together?” “Can we learn from what has happened in the past?” “Can we go forward?” “Will we hold fast to our heritage as a nation or break it all down and have nothing common?”
In fact, our only hope is to trust in the only who who is worthy to be praised- God. He is our hope and our only hope. In Him, we can be assured of agreement.
We cannot go back in time. What has been done, has been done. We cannot change the past but we can right wrongs now and we can let God live in us such that we can see everyone in which we come in contact as our neighbor. We can ask forgiveness. We can listen. We can hear. We can act. We can go forward and we can truly serve our neighbor. We can love others as ourselves. That is what we have been commanded by our Creator to do.
As has been discussed off and on over the years, we have not been a perfect people. Americans over the lifetime of this country have not been perfect and there has been great erring however, our nation has been the absolute greatest nation to ever survive on the face of the earth. America is great. America is grand. Her heritage is rich and powerful. America has been a shining light across the globe. Even with its blunders and stains on even some of its fabric, America has been a beacon for the entire world.
Let us go forward in peace. Let us continue to right wrongs, and review our past with a clear vision to never again make those mistakes. We must come to a place of honest review and ask forgiveness for erring. We can move forward in a positive way. This has been done over the years but let us again seek to love our brother and our sister as one.
What has happened to “loving our neighbor?” In this series, we will consider important points about who our neighbor is and how we can get back to seeing every person as an opportunity for sharing God’s love and grace. In this series we will look into ways that each of us can get out of our comfort zone and truly love our neighbor. No racism allowed in love. So who is our neighbor?