My Concern

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.

Do you know your next door neighbor?"

This Christmas Day is past...and it was wonderful.
I hope it was just as wonderful for you!

Aah...so, we're on the threshold of a new year 2012. I wonder what it holds for me; what do you think it holds for you?

Have you made any resolutions...or are you into that? I stopped making them; they're too easily broken. In a way though I think about changes I want to make but even more...changes I need to make in my life.

A thing that has been bothering me for some time now has something to do with the quote at the top of this post...Mother Teresa said it...God said it...love my neighbor as myself!

Do I know my neighbor? No, I don't...I do not and that haunts me...all the time. If it does, why don't I do something about it...why don't I know them?

This is a puzzlement to me...in public places I'm no way shy about 'getting to know you'...Ms. Busy Bee and Spreader of His Sunshine! Okay, the answer is obvious to me, these people aren't 'near' me...as in they aren't my neighbors!

Uh-Oh...all depends on His definition of 'neighbor'...oops! My, I have more neighbors than I realized...my bad, yes? No picking and choosing...hmm. I've been ignoring one of the must God puts out there right under my nose...directly in front of my wide-open eyes! The very eyes I had 'fixed'.

I know a few of my 'neighborhood neighbors' by name...that's it...name only. I'm not totally unattached though...because I do know a couple personally and we're friends. Other than that? I'm most ashamed of my ignorance.

What can be done about it? Well...as yet I've no plan but it's always in my thoughts. And every single time I look out my windows it hits me where it hurts...directly in my heart. I don't want to go on like this...it hurts me!

I would hope others are concerned about me...I want others to know me, really know me so?

Okay, here's the plan...I haven't a clue 'cause I'm gonna' practice 'natural evangelism'...be Spirit led and see what happens!

And guess what...I want to really know you, too and you'll be in my thoughts...we're all neighbors, right?

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.

Do you know your next door neighbor?"

Mother Teresa

From my heart to yours, Vasca