by Lori Wilson "I was a stranger and you welcomed me." — Matthew 25:35 I wrote a retreat once around a simple gesture. As participants moved outside, each person received a small paper heart and was invited to place it beside one of several signs: The Hungry, The Unhoused, Those Needing Clothing, Welcoming the Stranger, Visiting the Sick and Imprisoned. The idea was simple: let your heart go where it is being pulled. Don't think too hard. Just notice. I already knew, even as

by Lori Wilson There are moments when it is easy to see the goodness in another person, when their kindness is evident, when their warmth reaches across a room, when love seems to simply radiate from them. And then there are other moments. Moments when someone's actions feel like the opposite of love, when everything in me wants to draw a line, to step back, to quietly place them in a category of other. I know that pull. Maybe you do too. It is a very human response—this desi