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| Lydia and her boys. |
At the end of our last meeting with the boys in the juvenile prison colony, Lydia took out a bag of pears and apples that she had taken from her garden at home. She saw that there were six guys with us and she carefully arranged six equal rows for each of the boys. They all stood around Lydia, waited and then thanked her. All of them were there for the first time, as was Pasha, my interpreter. When Pasha saw how Lydia was with the boys and how they were with her, he teared up and said, "she really loves them, doesn't she? And they love her already."
How that is possible? How can love appear instantaneously between kids in prison and an 86 year old retired nurse? "By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:38. God is love and it's God's love alive in us that makes this possible.
And yet, He gives all of us the choice on what, if anything, we will do with that love.
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