To sit with someone. To ask them questions. To hear them. To make them feel known.
Especially those who feel the most unknown.
Those are words i’ve been looking for. I’ve been trying to describe my passion and what I like to do. That task has proven easier said than done, but last night, my wife and I were laying in bed talking with the lights off while falling asleep, and she said those words to me, as I tried and failed again to find them myself.
There’s a lot of goodness in being able to inhale and exhale, while the person you love most speaks truth into you. I think we all crave moments like that. They are moments we live for, and they seem to happen when we least expect it.
But sometimes life sucks. A lot of the time it feels that way. Whether you’re searching for a passion and trying to find your ‘why,’ or if you’re feeling alone and like you don’t even have a person to speak truth into you. Those are the low moments that always seem to outweigh the high ones. But i’m here to say that there are high moments. Even in a life full of lows, there’s always highs. Maybe it’s a smile from a stranger or a breeze at just the right moment, there is still grace. For today and for tomorrow.
-Cliff
Cliff’s Note: Sometimes we’re meant to close our eyes and feel grace because sometimes we can’t see it.