It's quite a different feeling altogether - encouraging each other to bless and to love strangers ; and to be actually blessed and loved by a stranger yourself.

A bit like what Alice related to last week and shared again by Jon yesterday ; you'll never quite get how to cope in overwhelminglyoverwhelming circumstances until you just really trully understand God's love. The gist of it being ; hearing of something and telling others of something really pales in comparison when you are personally acquianted with something through experience.

Taste and see that the Lord is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
Psalm 34:8

And I just want to thank you all for every bit of your heart that knits this ministry together. For making this love real enough for others to taste, and to see.  

When complacency sets in and its hard to find a drive to press on; I pray we will take some time to look at the supernatural wonders that happen in the natural. For what happens in our own lives and the joy that sets us free to share it with others. Literally.

God's love is everywhere.

As for what keeps it alive in our world ; i'll leave you with this :

" Has not the Lord Almigthy determined
that the people's labor is
only fuel for the fire...
...For the earth will be filled
with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea"
Habakkuk 2: 13,14