Student Ministry Blog

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” - Thomas Merton

“A good spy doesn’t wait for something to happen. A good spy looks to make something happen.” From Spy Kids 4

Chris, a friend from several years ago, has a child with a disability. He shared a story with 350 students I’ll never forget. What made the story compelling was not the adventure or storyline. It wasn’t the plot or the setting. It was
simply this, he wept as he explained what it meant to him to watch someone at his church take time to get down on a knee, look his boy in the eye and meet his son in the son’s world.

Isn’t that what God did? Didn’t he, by the incarnation, by being born as one of us, choose to get down on one knee and enter our worlds?

Can’t we learn from this? Is it possible for us to take time to love others by stepping into their world rather than waiting for others to come to us?

During this third week of Advent talk as a family how your family can love others by making something happen rather than waiting for something to happen.