TO BE WITH

How to Be Fun to Be With - wikiHow

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law" (Galatians 5:22-23).

Expressing myself, either in writing or orally, is not easy for me and yet this skill is essential to what I do as a pastor and counselor. Often, what I write here is the rough draft of what will follow for a devotional or a sermon--it is part of a creative process for me. Such is what follows. If it seems not to make sense, or be disconnected, that is why. If you follow me all the way through this, perhaps you will get a clue as to how my mind works.


If a "hit man" was trying to discover my routine so that he could "take me out," he wouldn't have to work very hard. Twice a day I walk my dog, Obie, for a mile, most usually early in the morning and late in the evening--I would be an easy target. It was during one of those walks with Obie that I was thinking about possible topics to write about that this phrase came to mind completely "out of the blue," "To be with." I do like the challenge of making something meaningful come from a random thought, and yet, was it a random thought? I will be sharing some of my thoughts about what it means "to be with" in the next couple of posts.


The first part of "being with" has to do with being the kind of person one wants to be with. I "googled" the phrase "to be with" and one of the things I came up with was the article from wiki posted above. I thought it was good enough to share. However, if a person is a Christian, with the fruit of the Spirit growing in his life, there should be a winsomeness that makes him or her good to be with.


Grace&Peace,

Tom