they will know you by your love 

Where to start?
There's no good place.


      My heart goes out to the people in Orlando today. I stayed up after the Tony awards last night and watched the news and my heart broke in two. After covering the story of the mass shooting there was an additional 3 more shootings right down the road from my home town and people jumping off bridges and drowning. Where is the humanity? Have we gotten so cold that it's okay to take lives without even considering the other person?

      I asked my mom very quietly, "Why do these people do these things? I hate seeing this."
She had no words. And quite frankly, I don't think any of us have any that are sufficient enough to put a reason to the lack of love.
 

  Whether you support LGBTQ or not, I don't think this is relevant. We have to look past this. We are supposed to love everyone. Jesus didn't pick and choose who He loved, he said come as you are and will love you and forgive you! If they choose to stay in sin, that's their choice and you can't change it, but they are human and flesh just like us. They have families just like us. They have feelings just like us. So instead of just being sad about it, let's take action.

       Let's take our love for Christ and love for people outside of the church and the four walls we live in. If you only love those who love you what good are you doing? Instead of the stuck up religion most people see let's show them LOVE. Let's show them COMPASSION. Let's show them above all, HOPE. If we show them how much we love them and that we aren't self-centered around ourselves and just other Christians, maybe they'll think, "Hey, they have something different, something special. They actually care. I want to know why."

It shouldn't take the largest mass shooting into the history of the U.S. to make people want to pray for the nation and it's people. We should be praying for all the unsaved people in the world everyday. 

       So when you're praying for the families of the victims and for the injured, pray that their would be people around them that would show them true, genuine love. The kind that's raw and reckless and loves without fault and forgives.
We are all human and God says that all sin is equal. We are none more special than another. All made from dust in the ground and to dust we will all return. I hope this inspires you to pray differently and diligently for Orlando, and even more so our country and the world.

We won't stop until the whole world hears.

So let's shout His name from the rooftops together Loud and Clear.

Mucho amor,

+JR+