A couple Saturdays ago I was cleaning up after baking some cookies when the doorbell rang. I figured it was our mail carrier dropping off a package--what with Christmas, M's birth, my birthday, and C's birthday next week, we've been getting lots of stuff in the mail lately. I opened the door to find two middle-aged African American women.

Urgh. Jehovah's Witnesses.

I told them I didn't have time to talk--the baby was sleeping (that's true). I wouldn't mind a conversation in the future, although I'm not much of a prospect, to say the least. They were sweet as could be--asked whether they could share a scripture with me as they left. Sure. So this is what they read, from Romans 16:

I urge you, brothers and sisters, to keep an eye on those who cause dissensions and offences, in opposition to the teaching that you have learned; avoid them. For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded. For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I want you to be wise in what is good, and guileless in what is evil. The God of peace will shortly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

I thought that was a pretty strange choice. Wasn't what I would have picked. It got me thinking--if I were ever to go door to door to share about my faith, what verse would I choose? Mamala said, "That sounds like a blog topic!"

They came back to the door today, while I was on the phone with her, and she reminded me of that conversation. So here it is.

I'm not a door to door kind of person; at least, I don't think I am. But if I were ever to go door to door, I think I would pick a verse that conveys comfort and hope rather than a verse that is trying to prove something.

This is my current choice--what is yours?

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Non-Christians can play too. What short piece of literature would you choose to share with the world?