Together

"The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me." - Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003), 182.

It strikes me that hardly 24 hours go by without a conversation in which I speak and act defensively. When people talk to me, I don't listen so much as argue with them in my head, or ready my clever response. Goodness, even the way I'm talking right now is all about me.

Lord, let your grace flow. Help me to be present to others. Work in me, and allow me to love with the love of Christ. Grant me the grace to listen to - and hear - my brother and my sister.