Merging Shadows

You never know how you may impact someone's life. You never know how the knowledge you take for granted may make someone breathe a little easier, make their burden a little lighter. Since you never know, it is probably best, whenever possible, to invest your time and your energy in speaking with others, in letting them pour their pain out, and when you are able, rest a comforting word on their heart, a gentle supportive hand on their shoulder.

I cannot get over how many people yesterday came to me with grievous burdens, difficult issues, sorrowful stories. I realized I had also gone to others with sorrows I did not know how to deal with. This world has too much pain for anyone to bear alone.

But we are not alone. God is here, and He put me here, right in your path, and he put you here, right in my path. Speak friend, and I will try to listen, knowing you will do the same for me, because I am certain my shadow falling across yours was not an accident.

1 John 4:7,11-12 (NIV)
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. [11] Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. [12] No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.



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