Soft Hearts Change the World

This world has a way of hardening our hearts and making them calloused to the hurt and pain and injustice around us. I see it all around me and I see it in myself.

I can be so selfish. I can be so stubborn. I can care so little.

But it can be different!

This week a young woman shared her story with our community. She told us of how she grew up in rural Vietnam, how she later moved to the big city of Hanoi and how she met good people that introduced her to outrageous Love--the kind of love that cares, the kind of love that helps, the kind of love that leaves selfishness behind and looks ahead to give itself away.

She saw this Love inside of some people that came through the shop she worked at in the streets of Hanoi. That Love has led her to work for an organization called Glocal Ventures that helps the neediest people in Vietnam. She helps to provide clean water and food and clothes and supplies and education to people that can't get it for themselves. It is good work! It is courageous work!

As I listened to her story today and saw first hand Love living inside of her I couldn't help but see how Love can transform a heart and make it different than what this world tries to make it.

So I said to her, "You have such a big heart." And she replied, "Oh no, my heart cannot get any bigger....my heart is only soft now." I just nodded my head...knowing exactly what she meant. And as I asked the next question in the interview I found myself hoping and praying that my heart would be soft like hers.

And then I looked out to the people looking up at us and I asked for the same thing for them. My heart longs for hundreds and thousands of soft hearts ready to put selfishness aside and live for the things that really matter.

Thanks Huong! You're an inspiration to all of us! And thanks Glocal Ventures for all the good work you do in Vietnam! We're so proud to be a partner in your efforts.


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