Investing.

I have been learning about investing in others lives lately. It can be so easy and even tempting to just focus on yourself and your life and justify that in so many ways. But we are called to live life together and sometimes that means getting down into the muddy, dirty, sticky, dark, painful, complicated lives of others and loving them where they are. We can't wait for our lives to look pretty or others lives to look pretty to live life with them. Christ reached down into the hole we had dug for ourselves and loved us right there and then loved us more by lifting us out. We need to be doing that. We can't throw all of the attention on ourselves and we can't ignore the needs of others. We rejoice together. We suffer together. We live life together.