Two or three

Today I’m talking to a group of people who care about people.

Nurses and social workers and chaplains and pastors who are giving up time and attention to learn more about caring for the grieving and lonely. I’m grateful for the opportunity, anxiously hoping to be helpful. Aware that these are people who make a massively small help in mostly tiny spaces with audiences of two or three.

When we measure impact, we think most about the numbers of people or dollars or words. We think less a...