Today's assignment is to answer questions 2 and 3. Here is an optional thought question that relates to today's readings: How can you love someone who to you is pretty much unlovable?
We will continue reviewing with the memory verses this week. Next week we will add a new one. Are you excited?
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Done for today.
I knew a woman once who was very standoffish. Everytime I tried to speak to her, she seemed distant and uninterested. After a couple of years of knowing her, nothing much had changed, despite my "efforts."
Then one day I mentioned something to her that (for whatever reason) sparked her interest and we started talking more and became "friends." Not long after that, she told me that no one else at our congregation was friendly to her. I was astonished. I knew that many others had made efforts like I had; in my experience it had always been her unfriendly attitude that interfered with potential friendships.
People like that are, of course, responsible for their own error in judgment. But still, I always think of her when I encounter someone who is bristly or difficult to love. I can try to love such a person, in spite of her bristly nature, by recognizing that she may just be one of those people who is simply blind to the aura she projects. It may not ever result in true closeness until she makes more of an effort, but still, I think it can open doors. :)
Done for yesterday and today.
I have noticed that many people are like your friend, Jennifer. It often seems the more prickly the person, the softer the heart underneath the prickles.
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