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When somebody comes to solve your problems and repair your brokenness, you feel like his project. When he simply comes, you feel like his friend.
“We have a tendency, especially in an achievement-oriented culture, to want to solve problems and repair brokenness — to propose, plan, fix, interpret, explain and solve. But what seems to be needed here is the art of presence. . . .” David Brooks
“[C]ompassion, kindness, humility. . . .” Colossians 3:12
You’ll have a lot of chances today to choose between come-in and do-not-disturb.
“And may the light shine out of the two eyes of you, like a candle set in two windows of a house, bidding the wanderer to come in out of the storm.” An Irish blessing
“Earnestly and eagerly seek to be hospitable.” Romans 12:13
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
