Chalk it up to spreading hope.

Messages of love, compassion and support scrawled on the sidewalk of a mosque in Virginia is making folks on Twitter cry happy tears.

On Sunday, members of the Mubarak Mosque in Chantilly, Virginia were delighted to read, “You are loved,” “We are your brothers and sisters” and “We are with you” written in sidewalk chalk on the paths leading up to the building.

The messages were initially found by Tariq Amjed, president of the Central Virginia Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, as he was coming in for prayer on Sunday.

“We believe it was someone in our neighboring community,” Amjed told The Huffington Post. “We have been here for about four or five years now and we have a beautiful community of people around us. This proves it once more, and we hope they come visit our mosque.”

Images of the artwork were posted to the local Muslim youth group’s Twitter account the same day they were discovered.

The images soon went viral after… read more at source.