Loving Our Neighbors

Sometimes I wonder if that if we should love our neighbors literally. Like loving the person who's house is next to us, whom their dogs keeps you up at night, the one who gossip about you and things like that. Well, I think it can be taken to an extend, just love people. Well, love isn't something you just say or feel, it is an action. So here we are acting out that love to our neighbor.

Most of you probably have heard about the big flood that hit Chiang Mai last week. And one of the lady from our church got it really bad. The water was probably a meter high in her house and she lost a lot of things. And I know there are a lot of families in our church who got flooded as well. So last Sunday we split up into 4-5 groups and we went and help different houses clean the mud and the dirt from the flood. As you can see from the picture below how bad the water get into the house. We went as a youth group to help cleaning up the mess.

When we reached her house, the water was all gone and the area was dried. But bad smells everywhere and trash and broken furniture were put outside. She had sprayed her house the day before but the walls and the whole house is still covered in mud and dirt. So here we are scrubbing and helping her cleaning the house.

There were a lot of us who helped clean the house and thank God that we had running water there, even though there wasn't a lot. But were able to clean the house, put away some soaked furniture out and help her getting set up again. She was so thankful that we came and help her. She said it over and over again that she thank God for all of the people who came, and helped her clean. Because it would take days for her and her son to clean it themselves and the smells would stick to the house.

Sometimes, love is shown by getting to your hands and knees, scrubbing the floor and wiping out the mud on their furniture. I am glad that we took action on this, I am glad that we are not just saying that we love our neighbors, but we also do it.