Excerpt from Wendy Alsup post:
The Most Needed Peer Pressure in Christianity
I want control of my circumstances and gravitate to suggestions of things to try to fix situations. But at some point, as things continue without change, I tire of suggestions to try. In one such situation, I sat with a wise older friend and listened as she spoke words that poured over my parched soul. Her advice? Rest. Endure. Love. After time in her presence, I felt free—free from the guilt that I wasn't doing enough to change my loved one, free from pressure to come up with the thing that will most help them, free to love them unconditionally the way God has loved me, free to bare my soul to God in confidence that he would hear me, and free to leave my fears at his feet when I was done.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all thing. Love never ends (1 Cor. 13:7-8).
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