I realize something about myself. I have tried to be a friend to many people and the many people have rejected my friendly overtures. It is true that they don't wish to respond, so they don't. But I see a problem with that. Maybe there is someone in my future that will need my friendly initiative. If my friendly reaching out has been quashed a hundred times, then I might stop trying. If I stop trying someone might suffer. If anyone suffers from a lack of friendship, whose fault is it? Is it the fault of the one who suffers? I am quite sure it is not. I know of the telling of many righteous men and women in the Bible who suffered. It was not their fault.
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