And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.  Colossians 3:14

I moved my daughter into her dorm at Harding University this week.  I was filled with many emotions but mostly I am excited for her to start this next journey.  I think she is exactly where she is supposed to be.  She will be able to get a great education at a school that puts God first, focuses on serving others and builds relationships with like-minded faculty and students. 

The raw emotions that I might experience at this time were heightened by the many questions and disagreements that surround us all at this time. Should children be in school or should they not be in school?  Should we wear a mask, or should we not wear a mask?  Do we continue to social distance or can we get back to normal distance? And those seem to be the easy questions.  The debates over politics will only increase as the political party conventions kicked-off this week. And the struggles to overcome racism, which should have been happened long ago, continue. But, thankfully, we know the victory is already won through Christ Jesus.

As I helped shop for dorm supplies, I saw a poster that contained the following quote.  “Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people. A heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith in God.”  It reminded me that we must always try to look at the world through God’s eyes.  When we do, we will know that we will never look into the eyes of someone that God does not love.  It makes it easy to “love your neighbor as yourself.”  As the Apostle Paul wrote in Colossians 3, “put on…compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, bearing with one another…forgiving each other…put on love.”