It is very interesting that in reality, not the sophisticate skills or tricks of dealings with other person which makes someone get connected to each other. First of all, it is about the willingness to understand each as a person. This willingness, is a part of our care to others, a part of our love to them. What kind of understanding? It is to know although very little of their heart and language (the way they express themselves), about their energies and their choices and their perspectives toward the world. Everybody is different and unique. And each has the very right to decide their decision according to their choices. And in fact this is in the heart of our obedience and love (to God): to consciously choose the Life and live in it with a whole heart, to take our cross in humility while trusting God, our strength.
The willingness to understand and embrace others means not to judge and see others by our own perceptions and presumptions (which we supposed to be right and in fact, often not), rather to look into their hearts. It is to stay near and to listen to them without feeling more upright or more knowledgeable. It is to humbly realizing that I just know a little of what I heard or thought about them and I am available to hear more from their own heart's expression. It is to realize that not me, which many times don't have a loving and compassionate heart toward them to judge but we give them up to God's mercy.
But this is by no mean to be conformed in relativistic view of things or to be indifferent. Rather it is to stand in the truth but not boasting in ourself but rooted deeply in God's mercy. This is to speak the truth in love. It is to be firm in doing what we see Him doing, and follow Him at any cost and rejoicing with the heavenly joy when even one who is lost is found.
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner!
Ameyn, Yudhie, ameyn, love to you, brother, for you are listening to our Lord and hearing Him well, you are being changed into His likeness, brother, and I thank Him for you every day! Glory to God in Christ our Savior the Only Lover of mankind!
ReplyDeleteThanks brother Romanos! My unworthy prayers be with you too! :D
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ReplyDeleteBeautifully put, Yudhie! Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI am struck by how easy it is to stand beside a waterfall, absorbing it and seeing it as it is with awe and without judgement. I never look at the waterfall while thinking about how it should have fallen differently or caressed other rocks on its way down.
How much more difficult to stand beside another person, equally a resplendent creation of God, and come to know them in that way without filtering them through my own perspective and judgements.
Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Thank you, Yudhie.
:)My unworthy prayers be with you, Elissa! Please pray for me too. :)
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