June 11: WE WON'T BE REMEMBERED FOR WHAT WE SAID BUT FOR HOW AVAILABLE WE WERE.

Affirmation: My feelings deserve to be expressed. 

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness not reign over me, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, faithfulness, generosity & gentleness may reign in me. Amen 
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Reading for Today
Walk in Grace. Live in Love. by Bob Goff

                        June 11

WE WON'T BE REMEMBERED FOR WHAT WE SAID BUT FOR HOW AVAILABLE WE WERE. 

"What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him. 
MARK 10:51 

For the most part, I don't set meetings. I just ask people to call me whenever they want to talk. To some of my friends, this sounds a little weird at first. Some of them have careers where setting up and attending meetings takes up much of each day. Here's what I've found: most of us spend more time setting up a meeting and then moving it a couple of times than we do meeting.


The tension here is that we want our days to be predictable and measured. We want to be efficient because our lives are already crammed with competing activities. But this efficiency comes at a price. If we're not careful, we can turn our friendships into appointments. We'll trade a life of engagement for a bunch of engagements. But when I look at Jesus, I see a person who was willing to be constantly interrupted. When a little child or a person in need came to Him He didn't ask one of His disciples to find a slot later in the day when He wasn't booked. He stopped what He was doing to find a woman who had touched Him. He had lunch with a guy who was hanging out in a sycamore tree.


One time He and His disciples were traveling together with a large crowd around them. A blind man named Bartimaeus cried out to Jesus, begging Him to have mercy, and the crowd kept hushing him. But Jesus thought Bartimaeus was more important, so He asked them to bring Bartimaeus so He could restore his sight. Jesus saw Bartimaeus as a person, not a problem. Jesus never saw people as interruptions. He saw them as opportunities.

 

Don't carve out time for people in your life. Make your whole calendar an opportunity to be more like Jesus. We might be known for how much we knew or what we said, but we'll be remembered for how available we were.

 

Who can you be more available to today? 

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