When people tell you their story, you will be shocked that they still stand.
Life spares no one from its harrowing tests, and it raises the stakes, whether you learn or not.
Luckily, with companionship, humankind is built to go through each test. This is why humans naturally build communities.
Even in societies that elevate the primacy of the individual, when life’s tests become severe, community is actively sought and paid for in cold cash.
Community accelerates the healing required for resilience through life’s tests.
A community starts when a minimum of 2 individuals decide to sincerely share their vulnerabilities, and trust that it will not be weaponized against them.
Be there for those in your care. It is both a selfless and a selfish choice. You can only understand what you give, and you get what you understand.
Those in your care need you to build a community that helps them birth their stories of life’s tests, not one that makes them bury their stories.
Those who can tell their stories, live fully.
Those who can’t, leave heavy.
– Osasu Oviawe
Day: December 30, 2020
Casting pearls before swine
1 John 2:15-17
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.
Homily:
Love is enduring.
When you apply the enduring to the ephemeral, the inevitable loss becomes enduring.
It is within your power to choose the object or subject of your love, because it is premised on the choice of where you pay attention.
Love the enduring. Use the ephemeral.