When you have a friend who has the courage to point out your blind spots, you have a true friend.
Blind spot: an area where a person’s view is obstructed
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend. . . .” Proverbs 27:6
a very good thing
It’s hard to feel self-sufficient when you’re facing tough and painful circumstances, and that is a very good thing.
“Let me fly from myself and take refuge in Thee. . . . Let me distrust myself and put my trust in Thee.” St. Augustine
"[U]nder His wings you will find refuge. . . . You will not fear the terror of night or the arrow that flies by day. . . ." Psalm 91:4-5
look deeper
If the unlovely things in the person beside you aren’t the real person, why not look deeper?
“If any one say, . . . ‘Can you deny that that person is unlovely?’ . . . I answer . . . ‘The thing that now makes you dislike him is separable from him . . . [and] makes him . . . so much less himself. . . .’” George Macdonald
“Why do you regard your brother with contempt?” Romans 14:10
weary and faint
When you wake up feeling too weary and faint for the day that lies ahead, it is God’s good pleasure to refresh and satisfy you.
“For I [the Lord] refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.” Jeremiah 31:25
Father, I will wait and watch and thank you all day long.
listen and look up
You could race through this day with your head down, or you could listen and look up as you go.
“Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.” Charles Hummel
Father, please show me the work You have for me to do today, so that I may do it well in the pleasure of Your company. From John 17:4
unfurled
Do you ever wonder what you’ll look like unfurled?
“[B]iblical trust is the conviction that God wants us to grow, to unfold, and to experience fullness of life.” Brennan Manning
“[O]ur lives [are] gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters . . . and we become like Him.” 2 Corinthians 3:18