WITH LOVE AND GENEROSITY

WITH LOVE AND GENEROSITY


How do you want
To live? What ATTITUDE
Do you want to CONVEY?


I HOPE to live with love
And GENEROSITY of heart


Looking back=
At the EARLY Christian community=
I am BOTH inspired
And discouraged


“There was NO NEEDY PERSON
Among them.......” Acts 4:31


The early Christian people
TRIED to meet all the BASIC NEEDS
Of everyone=what a world
This world would BE
IF we just
Tried to do this today


If we all could
With love and
A generosity of HEART=
Try and HELP OTHERS


INSPIRED by the early CHRISTIANS=
But not so much
By the people of today


WHY do so few=have
So much=and so many
HAVE SO LITTLE?


GIVING with love
And GENEROSITY of HEART


We have DRIFTED tremendously-
From the hearts=of
The early Christians=
From the COMPASSION
Of the early Christians=
For EACH OTHER


“God will come
To those
Who are GENEROUS
And lend freely


Who conduct their affairs
With justice” Psalm 112:5


“The GENEROUS
Will themselves be BLESSED


For they share their food
With the poor” Proverbs 22:9


“You will be enriched
In every way
So that you


Can be GENEROUS
On every occasion


And through us
Your GENEROSITY
Will result
In THANKSGIVING to God” 2 Corinthians 9:11


WHAT A WORLD
It would be


If we lived
In a world
WHERE every person
Was cared for


No matter
What their state of life
Might be


No matter
What our differences are


Living with LOVE=and compassion=
Living with generosity=
MEETING the needs
Of others


The EARLY CHRISTIANS got it=
Why don't we?


“The Lord will
Guide you always


He will SATISFY
Your NEEDS
In a sun-scorched land........” Isaiah 58:11


“And my GOD
Will meet all
Your NEEDS


According to the riches
Of his glory
In Christ Jesus” Philippians 4:19


I WISH that the modern day
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY-
Didn't just pay lip service
To the words of CHRIST


I wish that we ALL
LIVED as lovingly and with as
MUCH GENEROSITY as the early
FOLLOWERS OF Jesus


Amen=LET IT BE!


In Jesus' name=and in the name=of our ALL LOVING=all generous=GIVING FATHER!


Robert P. Wallman
4-29-19




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.