“Each of us has contact with hundreds of people who never look beyond our surface appearance. We have dealings with hundreds of people who the moment they set eyes on us begin calculating what use we can be to them, what they can get out of us. We meet hundreds of people who take one look at us, make a snap judgment, and then slot us into a category so that they wont have to deal with us as persons. They treat us as something less than we are and if we are in constant association with them, we become less.”“And then someone enters our life who isn’t looking for someone to use, is leisurely enough to find out what is really going on in us, is secure enough not to exploit our weaknesses or attack our strengths, recognizes our inner life and understands the difficulty of living out our inner convictions, confirms what is deepest within us. A friend.”
Eugene H. Peterson “Leap Over a Wall”
This is from a book about a divine nobody, David (of David and Goliath fame).
To me like anything else, all relationships grow and change and ebb and glow. Our souls always recognize the friends God places in our lives.
Peace and Love
Keren
Photo by Darla Winn
