Accepting Others

Some people have a way of making themselves at home. They don't ring the front doorbell. They slip in the back. They don't care if there's clutter on the floor. they'll either help you pick it up, or step over it to pour you each a cup of coffee.
How do these people do it? Perhaps the key to the back door of our hearts is simply acceptance--the kind of love that would just as soon hug you in a tattered bathrobe as in your Sunday Best.
Such people leave behind their expectations of how others should be and what they should be. To them, every person is buried treasure to be discovered and enjoyed. Differences are a source of delight. Evaluations, judgments and makeovers are not their job. Loving acceptance is.
When such a person takes me into her heart, it is certain that she cannot stay long our of mine.

Written by Susan Lenzkes

God's Words:
Accept one another, then just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring prasie to God.
Romans 15:7

You have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.
Colossians 2:10

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28