“While Jesus never hesitated to interact with the sick, the disabled, the outcast, and folks different from [him] ... I usually do. Do you? We are not called to rush into dangerous situations, but we are called to bring the saving grace of Jesus to everyone.” –Gordon Crisman, Fruit of the Vine

Query: How might you remind yourself to pay attention today for opportunities to visit with people you might not normally talk to?

But if the nearness of death

Stokes fear

And spins a frantic striving

Look away for a time

Sit as pupil beneath the cedars

Learn the long grace

Of those who rise

Live so freely in one place

And then fall

Who even after death

Release their essence

Nourish so well

With their letting go

–Bethany Lee, from “As Long as a Life” in The Breath Between