"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

and by LOVE HE means????

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

It really is that simple... and that complicated 

that easy and that hard! 

“God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Im so very proud
I struggle to see the person behind the bad behavior.

When we make our relationship with Jesus about....

 what close we wear

how we worship

that we don't drink

that we go to mass every day

how we find a spouse 

how many children we have

whether we use birth control or not

tattoos or no tattoos

etc...

WE MAKE IT ABOUT SO MUCH LESS THAN IT IS.
and so much more then it is.

RELATIONSHIP
WITH
JESUS

and our relationship with Holy Spirit.
this is how we will be led
and he will lead us all onto different paths!
there is nothing wrong with that!
 as long as Jesus is on that path.

OUR INSISTING ON OUR OWN WAY 
IS KILLING THE CHURCH

God is the God of TRUTH

 the truth is

we live in a fallen, hurting world that needs the kind of healing that only JESUS can give...

and yet the hurting often find even more hurt and rejection when they enter the walls of our churches.
 we may  be the only Jesus our neighbors and co-workers ever see we are the CHURCH!

every where we go we SHOULD be loving the hurting

ARE WE?