God leads an interesting life.

God is full of joy.

God is one great eternal experience of all that is good and true and beautiful and right.

God cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. DWillard

And God loves your neighbours...

Who guides your neighbourhood behaviour, urban planners or Jesus?!

The space around us—the physical organization of neighborhoods, roads, yards, houses, and apartments—sets up living patterns that condition our behavior. KTJackson

You have heard it said, But I say to you...

Your neighbourhood is a kingdom playground...

A place where grown-ups become children and learn to play again. We can learn to bring our best tools and talents and dream together...

Explore your neighbourhood...

Some people are counting on it.

If you wonder where God’s grace can be found, find yourself a critical friend. A friend who wants you to be as good a person as you can be, a friend who dares to confront your flaws and failures, and then accepts the whole of you in grace. LSmedes

The church could meet in a traditional building, a living room, under the trees, or in a parking lot. What’s important is Christ among us and being a family on a mission. If those elements are present, it doesn’t matter how many you have or where you meet. NCole

As difficult as it is to learn to surf, it is far easier to catch a wave than to cause a wave.

Catch a wave with the Father...

‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

Welcome to reality...

To truly love my neighbor as I love myself, I must put aside the human tendency to make myself the center of the universe. The person who successfully makes progress in this area faces a second danger of temptation. Other people will be made uncomfortable by his or her example. The person who seriously loves the neighbor must not expect social rewards or approval, but rather should not be surprised if other people try to persuade him or her not to strive so high. If this persuasion is resisted, the individual may be bitterly resented. This is particularly true if the one who loves the neighbor reaches across social barriers to love “the other” who is marginalized in a society. CSEvans

Beautiful.

I was hungry and you fed me,
I was thirsty and you gave me a drink,
I was homeless and you gave me a room,
I was shivering and you gave me clothes,
I was sick and you stopped to visit,
I was in prison and you came to me.

What kind of note are you posting for your neighbours?

Do you need to put some more flesh on the bones of those words, 'Love your neighbour'?

What Is Our Calling As Christians?

As Christians, Does it Matter Where We Live?

How Do You Think About Your Neighbours?

Do they know you're a Christian by your love?

What is God's dream for you neighbourhood?

Faith is the turning of Dreams into Deeds.

Get quilted together!

Let love & your very being become the thread that unites neighbours!

Do you live in an unfriendly or even hostile neighbourhood?

Isaiah 43:19
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

You are the path.

If we do not learn to live together as brothers and sisters, we are going to perish together as fools. MLKing

We have a constant companion.

The Lord is my constant companion.
There is no need that God cannot fulfill.
Whether God’s course for me points
to the mountaintops of glorious ecstasy
or to the valleys of human suffering,
God is by my side,
God is ever present with me.
God is close beside me
when I tread the dark streets of danger,
and even when I flirt with death itself,
God will not leave me.
When the pain is severe,
God is near to comfort.
When the burden is heavy,
God is there to lean upon.
When depression darkens my soul,
God touches me with eternal joy.
When I feel empty and alone,
God fills the aching vacuum with God’s power.
My security is in God’s promise
to be near to me always,
and in the knowledge
that God will
never let me go.

We sing together: 
O God we call, O God we call,
from deep inside we yearn, from deep inside we yearn,
from deep inside we yearn for you.
Amen. LFBrandt

This is life’s nature: that lives and hearts get broken, those of people we love, those of people we’ll never meet. She said that the world sometimes feels like the waiting room of the emergency ward and that we who are more or less OK for now, need to take the tenderest possible care of the more wounded people in the waiting room until the healer comes. You sit with people, you bring them juice and graham crackers. ALamott

What is it that produces the most fear in me as I think about getting to know my neighbour?

Want to change the world?!

Start in your neighborhood!

We all need, 'House Rules' when we live in community. Especially when dealing with conflict.

So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.

Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life—even though invisible to spectators—is with Christ in God. He is your life. When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you’ll show up, too—the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.

And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That’s a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. It’s because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn’t long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it’s all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.

Don’t lie to one another. You’re done with that old life. It’s like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you’ve stripped off and put in the fire. Now you’re dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.

Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. Let the Word of Christ—the Message—have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God! Let every detail in your lives—words, actions, whatever—be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way.

Wives, understand and support your husbands by submitting to them in ways that honor the Master.

Husbands, go all out in love for your wives. Don’t take advantage of them.
Children, do what your parents tell you. This delights the Master no end.

Parents, don’t come down too hard on your children or you’ll crush their spirits.

Servants, do what you’re told by your earthly masters. And don’t just do the minimum that will get you by. Do your best. Work from the heart for your real Master, for God, confident that you’ll get paid in full when you come into your inheritance. Keep in mind always that the ultimate Master you’re serving is Christ. The sullen servant who does shoddy work will be held responsible. Being a follower of Jesus doesn’t cover up bad work.

The nudge of grace...

What is standing in your way?

Come on - get over it! 

Love your neighbour.

Just do it!

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love your neighbor’; act as if you did.  As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets.  When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.  If you injure someone you dislike you will find yourself disliking him more.  If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. CSLewis

What story is next door to you?

Become known as a person who shares in your neighbourhood.

Viva la neighbourhood!

Happy Canada Day!