a lot to lose

My friend's mom, a single mother of four, raised her kids in the inner city and poor. Yet she would regularly invite homeless strangers in to spend the night on the couch, a dry place to sleep. What a challenge. Will I ever have such a heart? Thinking about how it's hard to love and respond to God's challenges... because we really have a lot to lose in this life... either way:

~ your own space
~ sleep
~ leisure time
~ your own language
~ your preferred style of dress
~ your preferred style of leadership
~ your things
~ physical energy
~ youth and physical beauty
~ social freedom
~ money
~ your food
>>>>>>>>>>
~ purpose
~ excitement
~ real beauty
~ unexpected friends
~ love
~ ultimate security
~ your real self that God made you to be.. that you would be if you kept holding on to all the things around you.
~ your truth revealed through shake-ups and letting everything else fall away
~ a glimpse of God Himself