and this is why

The last few days down on the green have been interesting. Well, the last week, really. Everyday when I would least expect it, God shows up in some way. And people keep asking why we are doing this, if we are part of an organization, etc...... I've been reminded of more things the last three days by the words of people I met down on the green than a slew of people over the last year.... maybe I just had better ears to hear, I don't know. But I heard this from people society tends to label outcasts, and I would have to say, there are some of them that possess far more wisdom than I do. (more on that later)
This morning we were talking before we headed over to the green, and we were talking about getting burnt out (we aren't really) ....although I have to admit, the only thing burning me out was cleaning up kitchen messes every morning....which is really kind of small and silly.

anyway, this has me thinking about quite a bit right now, but I have to run to work, so I'll leave this one thing for right now.... feeding people on the green, getting to know them, loving them, the only thing it is about right now is this:

"Seewhat kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure."

"11 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. 13 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth."

the day it becomes about anything else is the day we stop.

there's not any other good reason.