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Our home in divine Love
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
I’m a resident of Houston, Texas, one of the cities chosen to receive people from the Gulf Coast who need temporary shelter following Hurricane Katrina. I’ve been volunteering to help them when they arrive. It has been a wonderful opportunity to welcome them to our city. In addition to expressing neighborly love toward them, I’ve also been trying really hard to bring a spiritual basis to my work.
It would be easy to see these individuals as needy victims of tragedy. But that would only reinforce the widespread feeling that they are all “down and out.” So I’ve tried to think of them with the love God has for every individual.
When one of the other volunteers I was working with called the people from Louisiana “refugees,” I told him that I like to think of them as friends and visitors. This keeps me thinking of them as they truly are—as spiritual, loved by God and inseparable from Him. This outlook helps me make sure I treat them as honored guests, instead of intruders.
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