Withness

I’m teaching a class about pastoral care right now. Here’s part of what I wrote to a student the other day. It’s a helpful thought for the Friday before Advent.

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You are inviting me to think about presence. Part of why presence is so significant in my thinking and in our lives may be shown in the fact that in order to help, Jesus put on a body and lived with humans. His work wasn’t an outside intervention. He walked with, lived with, talked with, wept with, ate with, debated with, i...