Formed Into Love

#GBK Indeed!

Greetings & Blessings Faithful Followers of Team MissionAccess worldwide!  Langston Hughes, legendary poet of the Harlem Renaissance of the 60s, penned the timeless poem entitled “Tired”:

 I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind. (1)

What’s crazy is that I started seeing the words “good and beautiful and kind” popping up everywhere! In fact it is the title of an excellent book by Rich Villodas:  “Good and Beautiful and Kind: Becoming Whole in a Fractured World.” Rich is the Brooklyn-born lead pastor of New Life Fellowship in Elmhurst, NY. His book is a very personal testimony of how to live out our faith, not just by what we are doing, but how we are doing it. It all comes down to one pivotal question:

 “Am I Being Formed Into Love?” 

 Here’s how it works:  before you say anything, before you do anything, ask yourself “Is It #GBK? (Good? Beautiful? Kind?)” Think of it as a shortcut to Being Formed Into Love.

Oh Precious Peeps! It doesn’t have to be big.  Or profound.  But that’s exactly how we make a difference in this fractured world. Because even in this rotten world—no, let me rephrase that—especially in this rotten world, we are desperately needed to be #GBK for His Glory indeed. 

In His Accessible Grace,

Linda

(1)  https://apoemaday.tumblr.com/post/105022721882/tired

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