What Religion Is

After I gave birth to my first child, Justin Schroeder organized an online calendar where people in my community could sign up to help. The plan: twice a day food drop-off in a cooler located outside my front door. The only rule was not to disturb us. Just leave the food in the cooler and go.

During those chaotic, exhausting, physically painful and also joyful first two weeks of postpartum, it was an absolute miracle to walk out my door at lunchtime and dinnertime to discover the most amazing meals already prepared and ready for my family to eat. It’s over 6 years later and it still brings me to tears to think about the generosity of everyone involved.

THAT is religion. That is community. Quite simply that is LOVE.