How do we express God's unconditional love?

After leaving Casa G due to falling back into drug addictions, Jose Luis’s journey continues to be difficult.  He told me (Phil), “I miss Casa G.  I miss you.  It is hard.  I knew it would be.”   

And I miss Jose Luis.  I miss his energy, his enthusiasm, his spontaneous expression of music through rap, and our deep conversations.  I miss his friendship.

One of the painful challenges of working with former street kids is communicating unconditional love when their actions do not allow them to continue in the training program.  This summer while we were on home assignment, I thought about and prayed for Jose Luis.   I decided I would find him and just sit with him.  No agenda, no expectation.  So far I haven’t been able to do this because I haven't seen him and am not sure where he is living. 

Please pray I would have an opportunity to tangibly demonstrate God’s unconditional love to this young man and others no longer at the house.

 God uses His tool of trying circumstances to crack our hard ground.  He plants His word of light in our deep darkness.  He pours the living water of His Spirit on our dryness, and the soul softens…to raise within us a crop of righteousness.    (John of the Cross)