There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Cather
I am learning quite a lot this week... and leaning on others when the storms do roll into view.
Leaning's not my style, man.
There you have it, there's my declaration of independence.
As a child, I would often tightly squinch my blue eyes shut, certain that if I couldn't see them, they surely couldn't see me, either. (Ah, the super twin powers of imagination and invisibility!)
The older I get, though, the more my eyes open wide to the fact that life really is what Ms. Streisand sang about: "People. People who need people."
Not a one of us walk through this world alone.
And whether it's the homeless kid who lights up when he sees me and calls me by name, or my Mom who has spent nearly every morning this week lining cabinets with fresh shelf paper in my new house, or the local printer who remembers the job I brought in two months ago, or the minister who seemed to know every hurt of my heart, and then wrapped it all up so beautifully in prayer, or my niece who taught me how to ride a tree swing, or any of the other hundreds of people I see on a weekly basis, they all let me lean on them.
Most of them don't even know it, nor do they have any idea how much strength they share.
They help keep my heart full... and my eyes open.
Be well.
