Hope from the Margins

Today’s episode uncovers the depths of a message of HOPE & our call at baptism as disciples . As we go through life we are called to have hope and to share it while we lean on our faith. Amidst the hardship and challenges the Lord continues to call us by name and to do things with our lives that we once may never have thought possible. From depressed and not knowing how to live on during my high school years to finding myself in the trash pile in Mexico City— to sitting in the inner chamber at the Vatican to lead a global mission and conversing with Pope Francis —life has taught me that God’s love wins.Each of us has purpose and value. Most of time we just need to show up. Here I share the amazing ways God has opened up new pastures to help cultivate an initiative called Hope from the Margins. For many years I was searching for ways to serve the disenfranchised, poor, disabled, and outcasts of society. Now I recognize that the person I once was and the struggles we go through as people often equips us to understand, relate to and walk with our brothers and sisters. But what is even more however is how God revealed his great love when I encounter Christ in the poor and experienced him profoundly in the dumps of Mexico City. The margins is where Christ spent his time so now it’s no surprise that great faith, grace and blessings have been brought to me there as well. In this episode I share my personal journey and how God’s transformative power works on our hearts as he calls us to live in harmony together. It is not a matter of them and us but just us—As the Lord himself reveals in his birth in a stable as a baby named Emmanuel meaning, “God with us.”