EXPLANATION

When you strip the problems of AIDS/HIV from all the statistics, the political nightmares, and the failures, the solution boils down to one concept. Love. Seems a bit elementary, but in all honesty, it is true. If we truly care for the thousands of children that are dying on a daily basis, if we are concerned about how the products we buy are being made, and if we vote for political leaders based on their stance of extreme poverty, then we are showing love to the poorest of poor.

While touring the states, we often times found ourselves sleeping in dirty hotel rooms, on the floors of rock clubs, in the tour van, and various people’s homes. It occurred to me one night that if we are truly going to be a “sanctuary” of hope for the poor, then we must recognize what love looks like. Love goes beyond how we “feel” or our own comfort, even when it is inconvient.

Love is not where you have been or what you have accomplished, or where you live or what you have…love is what you do to those around you. We don’t need another church, another organization, another political leader, or another policy, we need real people in our communities to start showing love to others around the world. That is how true “sanctuaries” will be built. One child at a time.