Lets be companions... The willingness to enter into a helping relationship is essentially the willingness to be a companion- not a teacher, not a savior, but a companion. One agrees to go along. The word companion means one who breaks bread with another. People who break bread together share life. It might be nice to be able to do more for someone else- to be a savior, wonder-worker, supplier of every need. The helper cannot promise so much, but one gift he or she can give, and that is to be a companion. I will go with you to be on your journey, take to heart all that concerns you, be there when you need me. This is companionship... if it does nothing else it lifts the dread burden of loneliness from the shoulders of the other, and that makes all other burdens lighter. - Thomas N. Hart, The Art of Christian Listening, 17.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:00:14 +0000
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