Light in the Darkness. Presented by Father Jonathan Morris

      The wife turned quickly and then remarked kindly but firmly: “Oh, please, no! We don’t want the nicest children; we want two that nobody else would take.”

      We naturally choose to associate with people we like, those who are most congenial. But we are missing something important in life if we do not try to go beyond this limited circle. Every follower of Christ is entrusted with a portion of His love that he is expected to share with others, especially with those who have little of it and therefore need it most.

       “For if you love those who love you,what recompense will you have? Do not the taxcollectors do the same?”

      Matthew 5:46

      LORD, STRENGTHEN ME TO SHOW CONCERN FOR THOSE

      WHO ARE FORGOTTEN BY OTHERS.

       – Who Is My Neighbor? –

      G. K. Chesterton was not merely joking when he wrote, “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

      Sometimes when we hear that modern communications and transportation have brought people closer together, we forget that the worst wars in history have occurred in just this period of heightened contact.

      The mere act of bringing people closer together in physical and intellectual contact will never of itself guarantee harmony. There must be, first of all, spiritual contact, a sharing in the same realization that we have all been created by the same Father and for the same purpose.

       “But I say to you, love your enemies, and prayfor those who persecute you, that you may bechildren of your heavenly Father, for he makeshis sun rise on the bad and the good, andcauses rain to fall on the just and the unjust.”