Entertaining + Love = Unity!

On Sunday night I again had the wonderful opportunity of attending Emmanuel Baptist here in Santiago and listening to a wonderful pastor, Mr. Jay Cook himself! The message really hit home to me in many ways but especially when he said " we need to be looking through sunglasses of grace." His message was on unity, how to have it and how to destroy it. He talked a lot on pride and how a lot of times we as humans walk around with sunglasses on and only see things in the light that we want to, we don't take them off to see things how they really are, not to lower ourselves. I have never thought of myself as a prideful person, but I am human so by nature I am. I started thinking that night how could I show the people of Argentina that I want to be more unified with them. The way to have unity is to love. Romans 12:3 So, I started thinking I have already been blessed by having friends here but how can I show them I love them. Yesterday, I had the first set of visitors to my house ( Noela and Carolina) for "mate or tea time." God has blessed me with a wonderful apartment and they wanted to get to know me, so why not show them love by opening my home. Then after we shared a time of fellowship and went to a movie, they invited me to their home for dinner at 11:00 pm. I was overwhelmed by how looking at things in a different light opened up an opportunity for unity or friendship in only hours.