“And what did you learn from
that?”
“Hmmm.” I paused to think about an
event I had just mentioned to a friend. “I learned that I don’t get my value
from what kids think of me. I learned
that I still love teaching even when I’ve had a bad experience.”
“Well, there you go!”
Don’t you love it when friends
hold you accountable and make you think? My sister says she has one friend she
calls when she want sympathy and another she calls when she wants to hear the
truth. We need both, I believe. That’s at least part of what being in a church
means, and I’m so glad to be in a church setting where I have people who love
me enough to push me to be better, who ask me questions I’d rather not have to
think about.
Hebrews 10 reminds us not to “forsake
the assembling of [ourselves] together” so that we can encourage (It really
says “provoke.”) one another to “love
and good works.”
Let’s be thankful this week for
those who sympathize with us and also for those who provoke us.
--Sherry Poff
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