Loving the others

I was reading a post about a teenage girl with cognitive delays and some of the struggles she faces. It brought tears to my eyes and I prayed as I read that my boys, as they grow up, would be loving and humble enough, filled with the Spirit, to love people like this. To freely love and be a friend to people who are culture does not accept, and who may feel very lonely. As I was praying these things for my boys I realized that I need to be that person. That I need to allow the Spirit of God to fill me with love for people who are very other than me and not particularly desirable by our culture’s standards. So my pray instead is that I will love those people and that God will use that example to build an even more radical love in my boys.

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