Recently, a friend of mine hooked me up with this very inspiring story from the instersection of the worlds of Texas football and Christianity:
When I first saw this I was moved, deeply moved. Remember, this took place in the world of Texas football where they're serious about their football. To root for the other team? Well, that really took something. And to ask people -- anyone, anywhere -- to step out of their comfort zones and do something out of the ordinary? Lots of risks involved here.
Yet, really, in the grand scheme of things, you could say that this was a tiny gesture. So the story is that such a tiny gesture could make such a huge difference in the lives of these kids from Gainesville State, the prison's school. In fact, when I posted this video to FaceBook, one of my friends commented immediately that this one "unselfish act" on the part of the Faith Academy families could be a "defining moment" in the lives of these kids.
And maybe she's right. It certainly seems like it was a powerful thing.
But I'll tell you what I'm interested in. I'm actually more interested in how it changed the lives -- if it changed the lives -- of those parents and those kids from Grapevine Faith. They had learned the Gainesville kids' names -- do they remember them? Or have they forgotten them? Was it one unselfish act, or was it the beginning of something?
And what about those of us who've watched the video? What kind of moment has it been in our lives?
It's easy to see those kids and all they had to gain from this experience. From my position of privilege it's easy to listen to this story and see the gifts going one way. But that's not the way Love works . . . that's never the way Love works.
In Gassho,
RevWik
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