The interconnectivity in a relationship, whether strictly communal or deeper, should drive us to be more aware of how we interact. This should heighten our awareness of how far to push, how to embrace, how to put someone else first, and how to strengthen that relationship. Because people matter, the time spent communicating, loving, teaching, armor-bearing, is not something wasted but really, something gained. What we need is a paradigm shift into how we treat each other and how we GIVE ourselves to the needs of one another.

When someone matters to you, a fracture or a brokenness in the bond should bother you. It should bother you in such a way that you are left sleepless at nights and non-complete. When someone matters, they matter. I've seen where we try to one up each other; where we let the circumstance win despite what damage it causes. People break when they don't feel considered, acknowledged, respected, or needed. In fact, because they've been broken, they will operate out of that causing more damage to themselves and others around them. I've found that we can "break" people without knowing it, and we do that because we refuse to make ourselves keenly aware. We bulldoze our way into decisions without considering others, we alienate one another, we force our convictions on them, and we do all of these things with such heavy hands. At the end of all of this, the only relationship that you are left with is a Skeleton of what was once former. You've beaten and stripped that relationship down to where it's nonexistent; sometimes to where that persons light no longer exists.

People matter. Love on people. Go out of your way to genuinely affect someone that you care about in a way that communicates a deeper sense of love, a deeper sense of what they mean to you. me. Slow down on your approach. When people matter, clear communication is your goal, making sure they're ok is your goal, winning them is your goal, and the circumstance...well it will get fixed...or maybe it won't...but you wouldn't have ruined a relationship over trying to figure it out.

Love.

"I love you Lord. And I lift my voice to worship You, o my soul, rejoice"

 

What would it take and what would it sound like to have the Father, to have God, call us up and meet him in a space where his presence instantaniously breaks off the chains and bondages and all of the dead things that we carry on and alongside us daily? What would that look like?

"Your grace is enough for me"

                                                          God.

                                         Up.

                        Me.

       Call.