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6/4/2018 2 Comments the point is to stayi get caught up in life’s details - the kind of details that don’t necessarily solve anything, or provide any answers. like, i couldn’t tell you what highway i’m on or what direction i’m headed, but i could tell you what i imagine the woman in the lane next to me is smiling about or about the shape of the branches that dangle over the potholes. i love memorizing details that have depth, that are echoes of a larger love, a larger story. like a a wide smile & a thumbs-up from the groom’s dad right before the wedding starts, or an elderly woman’s steady hand on her husband’s knee cap, or strangers passing each other in grocery aisles & smiling. i love memorizing the details that are crammed with various expressions of what it means to live because i’m learning that the point is to stay.
when i think of some of my favorite moments in life, the ones that shed layers of gold & grace, each moment includes someone who stayed. someone who chose to not pull away, someone who held my eyes in theirs for longer than i expected them to, someone who shielded their attention from the time, someone who asked more questions, someone who refused to turn when i broke. i want to be that someone. i want a world full of those someones. because the point is to stay & to choose to stay means to not look away from whoever is in front of us, regardless of how much it hurts to keep staring at the bruises & sifting through the mess & the chaos & the unfinished. it means to not pull away when someone says, “well, i don’t know, it’s a long story…” it means to ask questions, & then to ask more. it means to make the phone call. it means to tell people who they are becoming. it means to speak to them as the Father sees them. it means to seek out the ones left behind & engage them in tenderness. it means to give people the space to grow crooked & understand that it’s the only way to grow. it means to know with every square inch of our hearts that love transforms more than a set of rules. the point is to stay, with each other, for each other, like how the stars stay with the sky. how they shine brightest when it’s darkest.
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Lisa Dunnett
6/4/2018 05:50:04 pm
Have you ever thought of Occupational Therapy Bethany?? Enjoyed reading this
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Bethany
6/5/2018 09:45:09 am
I haven't! But maybe I'll look into it :) thanks! & thank you so much for reading this! I miss you & hope you're doing well :)
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