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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1090

To whom are we friends? This is a bigger question than it looks for it points the finger at our heart and asks, How big?

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Do we love this widely and this much? Would we give up our children and grandchildren for the stranger, the guest, the world?

:- Doug.

Enemies not—only strangers: xenophilia. Exclusion is the blot on the heart. Welcome our stranger, love our guest, for we bring to each other great riches.

:- Doug.

Do we yet live by the gospel in a nutshell? Do we love the world this much? If this is the summary, then we are called to love this broadly, inclusively, and destabilizingly.

We cannot limit our love nor our beneficial action to people who look like us or think like us, or even only to people. As well, the degree of our love is called to go beyond ordinary limits, sacrificing dear ones.

:- Doug.