Rescue Mission in Progress.

Luke 15:6
6 When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’

When we hear good news we all react differently, but I'd say it's pretty safe to say that we at least smile at the thought of something good. For example, when a child wanders away and rescuers find them despite large landmasses on earth, you can't help but praise God (how couldn't you praise him?!?!). For the families that were eased out of their crisis, it must have been the greatest thing ever.

Today we are called to do some rescuing of our own in the Christian world. Often in our very own church and community people can disappear because they hurt and we don't pay attention to them. We need to go on a rescue mission, searching through all the nooks and crannies for those who are becoming lost and feeling unwanted in the vast world. We need to reach out to our brothers and sisters of Christ just as God found you out of all the people in the world.

Don't wait another day to start this wonderful project as we have too much to do!

“Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”
~Mother Teresa

The song "If We Are The Body" by Casting Crowns is so fitting for what I talked about today. This song is a great reminder of what needs to be done, not even in the world, but in our very own backyards!

P.S. If you have trouble with the video stopping and starting, keep the video paused, and let it "buffer" (load) as it's called for a while. You will see the red bar along the bottom advance (speed depends on your Internet connection). Wait until that bar gets pretty far along (I'd say more than halfway) before you play the video and it shouldn't pause.