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How to Love Your Neighbor this Spring
I just EGGED my neighbors! To be honest, I was simply looking for an excuse to meet more people in the neighborhood where we spend some time in the winter. Although my husband's family has been coming here for 50 years, I had only met the neighbors on either side of us. When I met the folks from Canning Hunger, I knew exactly what to do! Their Neighborhood Connections program strengthens community and eliminates hunger one neighbor at a time. "Almost everyone wants to help, but few take the...
How to Love Your Neighbor Who Has Hurt You
Guest Blog by Alicia Elkins We welcome Alicia Elkins to the blog today to share how she overcame incredible hurt to figure out how to love her neighbor. Yeah - that neighbor... the very one who had hurt her the most. Three years ago I found myself pregnant, facing a divorce from my unborn child’s father, my career in ministry ripped from my life and my world completely shaken, to say the least. It hurt. It hurt more than anything I had ever experienced. Not only was I hurting in...
How to Love Your Neighbor When You Have Kids
Guest post by Kendra Broekhuis As I pulled a casserole out of the freezer, I fought all of my “I Don’t Feel Like It’s” I felt about our plans to have company over that night. My husband and I try to put hospitality on our calendar twice per month because it’s a way we can love our neighbors during the Little Kid Stage. However, I’d be lying if I said this was always an easy goal for us to fulfill. As a mom of two little kids and as an introvert, the presence...
At Our Table guest post
Who is my neighbor? Guest post by Tami Arceneaux, At Our Table Many of my ministry friendships were formed over email and Skype calls instead of coffee at the kitchen table. Despite the fact that I've never met many of these women in person, the Spirit forms an instant bond and we become real-life friends through shared prayers, similar goals, and common struggles. A comment on a blog post led to my friendship with Tami Arceneaux from At Our Table, an online community that seeks to equip women...
How to Love Your Prickly Neighbor
Guest post by Deb Potts We’ve been married for 40 years, and we have lived in eleven homes. Most of our neighbors were nice, but one family stands out as being especially nasty. There were police strobe lights in our bedroom windows at night, ear-splitting rock music waking our sleeping baby, and rude, intimidating teens gathering by the dozens. But the worst insult from our nasty neighbors was their dog who thought our front lawn was his personal latrine, baring his teeth whenever we dared...
