Am I My Brother's Keeper?

Nothing special tonight but Brotherly Love...

I am a member of an eclectic group of entrepreneurs called OSI Rock Stars. The amount of love and compassion they show for one another is simply phenomenal. Recently one of our own, Janieruth, experienced an awful accident at eBay Live in Chicago. She was visiting an art museum and fell 10 feet from a banister. Since then, she has been hospitalized with a serious head injury. OSI Rock Stars have shown an outpouring of love, prayers, concern and even developed a fund to help with her expenses. And most of this comes from folks who have never even met each other. Amazing.

Another one of our own, Rina, recently lost her sister unexpectedly. Again, OSI members showered her with love, support, and prayers. In a response to this, Rina reminded us...If you have a relationship "fence" in your life that needs some mending, please don't delay ... act today! I know how hard it can be to take that first step, but "too hard" can turn into "too late" faster than you can possibly imagine. Wow.

I took that to heart tonight and called my only brother. I had not spoken to him in over 6 months. There were really no hard words between us. Lack of communication was mostly from lack of effort, I suppose. At times I thought, "Well, the phone works both ways." And it does. So what?

It felt really good to hear him answer that phone, to hear his voice. Just to chat. Nothing special except "brotherly love." Yeah, really good.

Thanks, Janieruth & Rina, for reminding me how special family really is.


But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13:13