Broken People

“God is building His kingdom through broken things.

“God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed.

“Heaven is filling with earth’s broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty.

“Christ can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise.

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We Care because We Must Care

I care. You care. We all care.

We care in varying degrees. Why do we care? Why should we care? To care is to look beyond one’s self.

There is so much to care about: the environment, our loved ones, friends, schools, churches, society, the world, those in heed, the children, the drugs, the poverty, the hopelessness, the depressed, the abused, and so on.

To care is to be alive. To love is to be alive. The two walk hand in hand. If people stopped caring, the world would fall apart. It would be lost forever.

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