I’ve looked over the last two posts and realized that they’ve been about eating and praying. On the heels of the success of Eat, Pray, Love, it may be a coincidence that the next thing that happened was love. But I doubt it.
Love arrived in the form of the college chaplain who is simply amazing. She had come to work in a quiet place on her sermon for the next day and, to her surprise, found us by this time sitting on the floor with our laptops trying to find the phone numbers of everyone we needed to call. She received the news like all of us: “What? No!” Then she just sat and listened. She listened to the story so far, to the tears, to our gallows humor, to our silence. She embodied Paul’s teaching to “weep with those who weep" (Rom. 12:5). But then she just didn’t leave us in the floor with good wishes. She prayed for us. Really prayed. She had heard the desires of our hearts that we ourselves had not yet heard, and she prayed the most beautiful prayer that settled like a comforter around our cold, shocked hearts. Wrapped in her love, with the assurance we were held by God within the communion of saints, we arose and went forth from that place refreshed and renewed.
Love arrived in the form of the college chaplain who is simply amazing. She had come to work in a quiet place on her sermon for the next day and, to her surprise, found us by this time sitting on the floor with our laptops trying to find the phone numbers of everyone we needed to call. She received the news like all of us: “What? No!” Then she just sat and listened. She listened to the story so far, to the tears, to our gallows humor, to our silence. She embodied Paul’s teaching to “weep with those who weep" (Rom. 12:5). But then she just didn’t leave us in the floor with good wishes. She prayed for us. Really prayed. She had heard the desires of our hearts that we ourselves had not yet heard, and she prayed the most beautiful prayer that settled like a comforter around our cold, shocked hearts. Wrapped in her love, with the assurance we were held by God within the communion of saints, we arose and went forth from that place refreshed and renewed.
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