a series on being :: part seven

:: part seven ::

You will find that you can do the same- you can move toward others in love, even knowing that you can’t always understand all of what they are going through or what they decide, knowing it is not your job to understand everything. That is the work that they do with God in their own souls.

But this is why it is particularly terrible to mock people in their pain. Pain can be such a hard river to cross, it is brave and difficult to find one another in our pain.

It is the work of the enemy of our souls to use the pain of others for mockery. It is the work of the enemy to use mockery of the hardest moments of others for our own gain.

Love moves carefully across rivers and walls. Greeting at the edges, allowing for places of unknowing and not understanding. We do not have to know perfectly to love, because we are not all the same shape. There will always be space in the middle, always be places where we have to leap.

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