“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”
-Oswald Chambers
The thing I love about reading a good book (besides a good boost to my vocabulary), is for the two weeks or four months I’m reading, I get a whole new perspective on life. New insights and ideas, I get a new lenses with which to see the world. Sometimes it is fun and easy and other times it is difficult and slow, but I am a little bit different once I finish. Once I know something I didn’t know before. This is even more true with people, whether I only know them for a day, or I get to learn more about them for twenty eight years, all relationships change you. I am honored by the ones that change me for the better.
I like relationships with people that are a little bit over my head. I love having people in my life who run a little bit faster, love a little bit better, and give a little bit more of themselves than I do. Not for competition, for aspiration.
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.”
Colossians 3:1 NIV
I’ve found that the beauty of these relationships is that even if I don’t see it, these people, these treasures, seem to see something in me that is just a bit over their heads as well. So we spend our time together learning, loving and admiring one another. We go out into the world then return to each a bit emptier and tired only to be filled again, by each other. Filled with something especially powerful, hope. The belief that now that we know there is another level to aspire to there is a chance we one day will. And in the meantime there is someone to love me while I am reaching, right from where I am.
Jesus Girl 