"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved"
Mother Teresa
What do we associate poverty with?
No money, poor housing, no medical care, slums, bush villages?
MumT lives in that world, had no money or resources of her own, lived and worked with people in the same or worse situations, and still says that the worst poverty is being lonely and unloved...all of us can relieve that poverty in someone's life.
Will you?
#realpoverty
#lovepeople
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
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