To choose to create opportunities through love to let every single person with which we come in contact know that they are wonderfully made simply because they are there is a pretty good mission. And what we can discover as we extend ourselves into the world is that as we love more, we receive more love also. It is a beautiful, symbiotic relationship. That as you give, so you receive. Now, I hope I am not like the teachers in the Gospel today who try to lay yet another burden on your shoulder, another thing to do, another thing to feel guilty about if you do not do.
Today is about love.
It is about creating community. It is a reminder that there are many, many children who do not have community. There are many children in our city for whom no one single person says to them, You are wonderfully made. I think that may have been the reason Amanda clung to me as she did at Camp Mitchell because I said to her, not through words, but by being there and being willing to listen to her, that she mattered, that all her crazy thoughts and ideas and silly stories about pokemon and school that her voice mattered. All I am challenging you today to do is to find spaces to love, every moment of every day.