Your PRESENCE with others is most important.

When you are encountering others, what is most important is your PRESENCE, in capital letters. It is not just being there. It is also not just telling another what you perceive to be true. It is beginning to understand what may lie behind what is being said or what is being cloaked in silence. God’s presence is not because you ask for it. Your presence in the lives of others is not because they ask for your presence. Your presence in the lives of others is most importantly a manifestation of your openness to accepting who they are, what they do, what they say, not necessarily as what you believe to be most beneficial, but yet accepting that you are acknowledging they are on their journey just as you are on your journey. God’s presence in your life is a presence of empowerment. Your presence in the lives of others can also be one of empowerment, one of allowing insight.