We Just Love Greater New Orleans
The city of New Orleans is a very unique place, inhabited by very unique people. It is a place known for Mardi Gras, the French Quarter, and our beloved Saints. It is known as the birth place for all types of music, food, and entertainment. Folks travel from all over the world to see what “The Big Easy” is all about.
What many outside of New Orleans aren’t aware of, and all of us who call it home know all to well, is that there are many here that can’t just “laissez les bon temps rouler!” Food insecurity, lack affordable housing , and educational inequality, just to name a few, are BIG issues in the New Orleans that make life for many no where near EASY.
That is why the Just Love Your Neighbor movement, born on the Northshore of New Orleans, has been listening to and learning how we can Just Love our New Orleans Neighbors for the past several months. With your help, we are ready to show the people of New Orleans how the power of selfless love WILL change our city...and the world.
Our mission is to Just Love Our Neighbors’ body, mind, and soul so their lives will experience healing and wholeness. To bring wholeness to a person, we need to care for the whole person. We all have been so stressed it made us physically sick or witnessed such beauty it felt like a spiritual experience. Those feelings and experiences demonstrate the mind-body-soul connection. A holistic approach to well-being involves bringing these three aspects of the self into balance to create harmony and health. The mind, body, and soul conception is a way of understanding ourselves as "whole people." On our website is a brief explanation of each. In the future newsletters, we will share future opportunities to Just Love Our Neighbors, as well as how that love has brought healing and wholeness to them and the world around them.
Being a pastor in the Christian tradition and a hospice chaplain caring for folks from any (or no) spiritual tradition, I tend to see how God, Jesus, the Divine, the Universe interacts in our lives. I’m not convinced of many things, but I am convinced of this. I do really believe that the power of selfless love WILL and HAS changed the world. I’ve seen it personally too many times to ignore it. I would love nothing more than to show you, and the beautiful folks of New Orleans, how it WILL and HAS.
Grace and Peace,
- Sam