Sure I've been told that being shy isn't a bad thing, and I agree. I think there's a happy medium between being shy and just being- just a being thats walking around with no affection.
If I were to just open my eyes to the world, I would see that affection is all around me! I should share in it, become part of it! I can learn something from everyone, it's time to begin learning and caring.
Caring can be the beginning of something much larger.
That something being God, God can be found in the smallest thing.
Call me crazy but I think in order to genuinely care you have to involve yourself. In 1 Peter 3:8 Paul makes a bold statement in saying that we all need to "Live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble". I think we live in a world where this passage is viewed more like a call to action. Sympathetic, Compassionate, Humble- these are adjectives, meant to be used as a modifier in sentences. But instead all three of those words are outside of my everyday vocabulary; when I hear them, I think action, a chore to our everyday life's.
"Oh man, his Grandpa died yesterday, I have to be sympathetic to him."
How great would it be to be truly sympathetic, compassionate, or humble? I can't even think what that would look, or sound like!
Until I can authentically understand what it looks like, maybe it is best if I just act it out! I don't seem to care about the lowest of lows on earth, the troubled, the hungry, the poor, the oppressed, the widows, the sick. I don't think of them as often as I should, but what if I help them? Sure I cant help everyone but it's taking action towards something bigger than me! James 2:17 says that faith without action is dead. Maybe it's through this alive faith that I would be able to experience true Sympathetic, Compassionate, and Humbleness in the adjective form!
It was exactly this reason why I want to write this blog, I'm tired of living a action-less, faith-less life!
