My friend, Jan, sent an email that said, "We all engage in self-protective behaviors that keep us from loving others well." I know she's a counselor now. But, boy does she get it and say it well.
Sometimes we are so into protecting ourselves, that we are incapable of loving others - well.
To love others well, we have to be able to project outside of our thinking and insecurities.
Today, try not so much protect yourself, as you do to extend yourself by loving others-well.
So hard to do sometimes - but it's what we are called to do - and it ends up stretching us and glorifying God because it is God who is able to love people through imperfect an fearful us. Thanks Dix :)
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