I struggled over this title. To Christians these four words conjure up a scene, a song, a promise so deep that there can be only one meaning. Yet I learned about something new last week that brings another beautiful color to its significance.
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I recently came across shoeboxes of letters from summer weeks long ago full of thoughts and stories and photos for keepsake. These particular notes were from Russian and Ukrainian orphans, my teenage peers at the time, anticipating the beginning of the school year, or First Bell as they call it in Russia.
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How do you measure if your efforts are successful? That’s a question we all think about, especially when we’re trying to be good stewards of the resources entrusted to us by God. Probably each of us has our own measure: for some it’s numbers, for others – its the ever difficult-to-measure quality-of-life.
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Pure and faultless religion is defined as looking out for widows and orphans in their time of distress. The orphans we meet in Russia need to see human love modeled for them, in personal and practical ways, to comprehend the vast love God has for them.
Read MoreIf there was one overriding thing I took out of the experience, it was a deeper appreciation for the idea that people are people, no matter where they are.
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