Faithbase

Hey faith-based friends and family, blessings to you today. I have a really strange challenge for you today, but it's significant and it matters, and the challenge is that let 2024 be a year full of awkwardness. I know that sounds so strange. I'm not trying to be catchy. What I'm trying to say is that choose to intentionally press into the awkward and the hard. When someone is struggling, maybe they're struggling with sadness, depression, the loss of a loved one, or miscarriage, or someone's been fired from a job, just be with them. Press into it. Check in on them. Let them know that you love them. Let you know that you're with them and you're for them. You don't have to have the right words. When my wife and I were in the hospital, we lost two of our sons. My youngest daughter is a triplet, and a friend came to the hospital while two of them were in the NICU, and he just sat in our waiting room. I'm sorry, he just sat in our little room in the hospital literally for hours. He didn't say a word. He was just with us. You don't have to have the right things to say. You don't have to be eloquent. Just care deeply. Don't avoid it just because it's hard. Press into the awkward in your own life. Things that are causing anxiety or triggers for sadness or anger, press into it for the sake of health, for the sake of caring for others. Don't be afraid. I know it's so weird and it's so uncomfortable and it feels like counter what our nature wants to do, but choose to embrace it. It's an opportunity actually to communicate such depths of love and an opportunity to grow. So blessings to you and encouragement and challenges. You press into the awkward and the Lord just surprised you with the way he uses you and works in you. Blessings to you today.