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We celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2008. Our children helped us celebrate with an all expense paid all arranged vacation In Hawaii.
Monday, April 20, 2009
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially notice the people nobody else notices. When you pay attention to someone, when you focus totally on them, you say, "You are the most important thing in my world right now."
Love is a form of work. Scott Peck writes, "The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to the person's growth."
God pays close attention to us: "Even the hairs of your head are numbered," Jesus said.
God notices things your mother never even thought about.
(The thoughts in this post were edited from John Ortberg's wonderful book, Love Beyond Reason)
7 comments:
This is such good advice and right out of the heart of God. Love in action!
Thank you for helping me pray for Colton; his parents are discouraged, but we serve a mighty God.
Good thoughts. Thanks for sharing them.
I really like those thoughts!
You are making me want to read this book too! Sounds sweet. Too bad everyone can't love this way.
Katherine
What wonderful words. Thank you. Many of the people with whom I work, only have paid staff, no "family" but us. It is easy to be caught up in the daily "to do" list and forget to stop and love and listen to each one, even if they cannot talk.
Clif,
Good thoughts on this. Sounds like a good book for me as I still need to work on this.
~Jean
Good afternoon!
Great advice to notice others.
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