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When you’re afraid that you’ll always be a mess, it’s a gift to have somebody alongside who sees the mess and knows that you won’t.
“I am confident that God, who began the good work within you, will complete it. . . .” Philippians 1:6
“I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” Anne Lamott
When somebody enjoys you just as you are, it’s a surprising reminder that you’re enough (and more than enough) just as you are.
“[God] meets us where we are.” Robert Mulholland
“Follow God’s example. . . .” Ephesians 5:1
Stopping to listen to somebody says that he’s more important at that moment than anything else (which is good for both of you).
“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. . . .” M. Scott Peck
“There is a time . . . to be silent and still and inactive, and there is a time to speak. . . .” Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7
If a good father saw his child scared, he would give anything to bring her into a wide and spacious place instead.
Good Father, when I am small and scared today, please bring me into a wide and spacious place instead.
“In my distress, I called to the Lord. He brought me into a wide and spacious place.” Psalm 118:5
When you’re exhausted from too many can-do, call-your-own-shots days, it’s easy to forget what glad feels like.
“[T]he Lord . . . will guide and counsel me. . . . Therefore my heart is glad. . . .” Psalm 16:7, 9
Lord, as you guide and counsel me today, I will live once again in glad relief.
If you allowed yourself five tranquil minutes every waking hour, you would lose about eighty minutes a day -- or would you?
Tranquil: free from agitation
“He restores and refreshes and repairs my soul.” Psalm 23:3
