Love well

There are mornings where I actually feel more grateful than others. I think those are the mornings when I read a passage and it just really speaks to me.

When I first heard the phrase “Love well,” it was really powerful. I think about it all the time now. No matter what, I try very hard to love well to see the other person the way God sees them. It’s not always easy. There was a young man that came to do some Plumbing work on one of my jobs yesterday. Must have been 25 maybe close to 30 I didn’t ask. But there was something wrong with him he had the shakes. Like early onset Parkinson’s. My first thought was, why did you send this guy? Can he do the job? Then I thought, of course he can do the job. That’s why he was sent. In my heart though, I found myself having a little bit of an attitude. Not sure what that was about but I didn’t like it. I read this passage this morning and it literally just nailed me. I wasn’t looking at him and seeing him the way God sees him. The attitude was me.  There’s another word here for attitude and that would be judgmental. That is the bottom line. I judged one of God’s children. That is not my place nor is it my job. It happened so fast. I didn’t realize I had judged him until just a few minutes ago.

Ephesians 4:4-6 You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly. You have one Master, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all. Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness. Msg.