Outdoor Truths: Aiming Outdoorsmen Towards Christ Feb 20, 2014
gary@outdoortruths.org ~ www.outdoortruths.org
This is really the best part about this kind of loitering. It’s actually pretty boring if no one is there and I’m left to browse on my own. People are what make this place special – people of all ages, from all walks of life and from all social statuses. We are all there because we have something in common. And while there may be conversations concerning some disagreements, it never seems to affect our relationship. It is as if what we have in common is stronger than what we don’t like about one another. The results are friendships that are based on something far deeper than differences. I’m not even sure I know what it is. But I do know this; when I spend periods of time with someone, I begin to get to know so much more of them than simply a political or preferential label. I get to know them – whatever “them” is. And what I begin to realize is, their good qualities so outweigh our differences, I would be the one to lose by excluding them from my life. So, while I may still differ in some areas and even try to convert them to the truths I hold dear; my words will now come from a place far, far deeper than my convictions; but from compassion.
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