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May this never be said of you or I:

"It was ironic that these Protestant [missionaries] seemed to incarnate even more than their monastic brothers the very view of Christianity they repeatedly deplored, namely, a Christianity which removed itself from men to seek salvation away from the actual life of real people. In their frantic effort to escape the fleshly vices and so to be 'holy', many fell unwittingly into the far more crippling sins of the spirit, such as pride, rejection and lovelessness. This, I continue to feel, has been the greatest tragedy of Protestant life." - Langdon Gilkey, Shantung Compound

Let's go out and get our hand dirty this year just loving people, wherever they are, wherever you are, however your paths may cross. Wouldn't it be awesome if people said of us, "There goes someone who exemplifies the love of Jesus"? I have so far to go, so much to learn, but I think I'm beginning to understand.....