Who Needs You Today?

One of the benefits of going through hard things in my life is that each time my heart got A LOT bigger.

I feel more empathy, understanding, sympathy, love, heartache and a desire to help in whatever capacity someone else needs especially where I personally had to grow through similar suffering.

I now know when someone seems “off”, responds snappy, retreats and seems distant or distracted that there is usually something else going on because I have been there.

We can still serve even when we don’t know the whole story. For me those were the biggest answers to prayers to see God in my life because I knew they didn’t know but He did!

May we take our trials and use them as an opportunity instead to sense others and not shy away from their pain.

Everyone has stuff! Everyone needs a friend to sit with them in it in varying ways. Sometimes we may not ever even know what it is but how easy is it to text, call, write a note, hug or smile at someone for absolutely no reason at all other than they came to mind or something didn’t quite seem right.

I am thankful that my capacity to love increased after my divorce. I get to love Mark in a way I never knew I was capable of. I am way more appreciative of the deliberate choices he’s made and the person he has always fought to be. I love being able to love more people as our family continues to grow. I now get to feel what being chosen really is. There is so much vulnerability in love.

Who needs you in their life today? What trauma have you been through that helps you link arms with those just behind you?

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