I see Jesus in you...

This past day we threw a free yard sale for the neighborhood and surrounding communities. It proved to be an incredible success! And by success, I do not mean that we reversed decades upon decades of generational poverty and injustice by transferring some of our used stuff to other families to store... I mean that the Kingdom of God was, in small but profound ways, making it's way to Dayton's Bluff. We were able to meet more of our neighbors, build relationships with children and parents alike, feed many stomachs, bring smile to plenty of faces and hopefully bless some people with the small gesture of getting something for free... (the key, by the way, to all of life's answers.)

Today, I saw Jesus in Nathanial, the way that he woke up early, and was the first to work in setting up and sorting; the way that he was beaming with God's love all day as he was serving the visitors today. The way that he worked hard to help promote the event, hung fliers and took inventory the night before. Jesus is hard at work... (wait no) hard at PLAY, in that man!

Today I saw the Father's heart more clearly demonstrated in Tony than ever before at this house... as Nasir lay across Tony's chest, with his chin on Tony's side. Nasir began to ask questions, child-filled questions about growing facial hair, permanent retainers in our mouths, birthdays and parties. And for a moment it was THE image of the Father fully loving His Son. It was an orphaned boy, who, being surrounded by violent and detached men all day long, came to Tony and in doing so found peace, rest, comfort, security, laughter and affirmation. I saw the heart of the Father, bleeding the most beautiful colors of red all over our front porch today.

God was most certainly well pleased today. Hope entered the world in a greater capacity today because of what a few simple and surrendered people were willing to do for God; nothing extraordinary... just good.