Given this is my first ever technologically advanced task to accomplish (blogging), I would say I am faring pretty well...at least, I think! Haha.... But in all seriousness, to the reason I have created a blog in the first place...discussing perspective:
Today and all of the yesterdays, and more than likely the tomorrows, there are people out there hurting. You may know some personally, you may be one going through pain for whatever reason. Think for a moment how much healing can come to those hurting if we give them the time of day. If we go to church and ask someone how he or she is doing and be on our merry way, not really taking the time to engage with that person, why bother asking in the first place? If we go to the grocery store and try to avoid the fellow shopper who can't stop talking about anything, what makes us think someone is going to listen to us when it's our turn to be chatty about which brand of cookies is the best, or how wonderfully cheap the milk is this week?
If we watch a little extra longer the faces of those around us wherever we land (gas station, hair salon, work, etc), and really seek out the ones who have the painful looks about them - whether they look mad, sad, scared, whatever - and take the time to show them some value by connecting with them in some simplistic or deep way... that may be the additive that contributes to their soup of wholeness.
