Day 220: August 18, 2016 Towns Unravel

August 18, 2016
Day 220

Towns Unravel

The sleepy towns of Morgantown and Elverson are chock full of sadness. A family lost their mother to cancer, too soon and too quick. A young couple is yelling at one another over in the parking lot across the street. They go back and forth and back and forth cursing all the way. There is much unrest between the two reflecting the town's sadness. What might look good on the outside is full of torment on the inside. Drug addictions are prevalent. Sometimes, in the middle of the day, drunk men and women are found in the parking lot of Sheetz needing a ride home. A young boy is abandoned at Walmart in need of help. From our living room, our family watches these events unfold. We pray and we sometimes are able to help and we are deeply sad.

And this is how towns unravel. We choose not to follow Jesus' example. We look the other way. But hope is eternal and love is present. And Jesus' love is deep and wide, far and high and cuts through emotional damage. To borrow words from the ancient text "Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things." (1 Corinthians 13)

The sleepy towns of Morgantown and Elverson are chock full of sadness but the good news is that Jesus is chock full of rest, hope, and love. Let's do this thing! Shall we?

Christopher's Burkholder original....