Let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus…
(Hebrews 12:1-2)
And sometimes, like me and the traffic, you might find yourself so focused on your mission and sense of what is beautiful that you forget to be frustrated.
In the email version of today’s blog post, I shared the results from the question “Where Do You Live?” from the “Books and Mennonites Survey.”
So, we had a lovely weekend, despite our big mistake. That’s what family teamwork does! It redeems out unpleasant situations.
Talk about teamwork among neighbors! Soon, we had a twenty foot wooden ladder propped against the culprit tree, with a Hispanic man with a limited English vocabulary comfortably balanced on its top.
None of these things were about Amish cooking or Amish romance novels or Amish witchcraft. After the pressures, politics, and hypocrisy of Washington, Tom found the Amish to be authentic Christian people living out their beliefs, and they changed his life.
Even though I have received an occasional compliment about being a good listener, I have floundered about aimlessly just as often. As humans, most of us are born with the skill of hearing. But not with the skill of being a good listener.
