Love where you Live by Shauna Pilgreen

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Love Where You Live

HOW to LIVE SENT in the PLACE YOU CALL HOME

"What we do in our land is what the next generation will inherit. What is seen and unseen. What we build, shape, and create will be what others step into."

Sobering words they are. What legacy am I leaving? What faith journey am I writing for others to read and follow? Shauna and her pastor husband left family and comfort in the Midwest and moved to San Francisco to start a church. Now she is surrounded by concrete and people and working to reach out and touch lives where ever she goes. They work to make their home a hub for their community, a safe place for people to go.

Shauna says to do this you need seeing eyes and listening ears. These eyes and ears must first look up and listen to the True Voice then they will be able to see out to the needs and hear the stories being told all around them. Be willing to step out of your comfort zone to reach out.

And probably the chapter that challenged me the most because of the timing in which I read it was on intercessory prayer. Pray for the people around you, really see them, and pray. They pray on the way to school every morning and since they go the same way every day at the same time, they have learned to recognize a lot of people, some names they know, others they make up, but they pray for them. And they may never know what their prayers did in the lives of these people and that is the challenge to me---to keep praying regardless, to increase in praying for those around me.

I really liked this book, it was challenging. In some ways, it's a lot harder to put into practice living in a rural neighborhood and in other ways, it should be easier because there are fewer people to focus on, yet it's so hard to go outside my comfort zone.

I received this book from Revell and was not required to write a positive review.

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