I had to love [Dooley] when he threw his shoe at the wall and cussed my dog, love him when he called me names I won’t repeat, love him when he refused to eat what I’d cooked after celebrating and preaching at three Sunday services…. You get the idea. I enjoyed the warm feelings, the stuff of the heart, when it was present between us, as it sometimes was, even in the beginning. But when it wasn’t, there was the will to love him, something like a generator kicking in, a backup.
Excerpt from In the Company of Others, p. 261
I love that simile. When the "power's out" (our own human strength), God gives us the resources to keep on giving and loving.
(Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino at Unsplash)
Blessings,
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