A Daily Devotional

About reaching out in understanding�

What little understanding we have about all manner of things, yet how great an understanding we think we have about all manner of things. How great we consider our understanding to be about all manner of things, yet we are ignorant in our understanding. However, even when we have little understanding about all manner of things, others desperately need us to reach out to them and understand them. Reaching out in understanding is critically important and vital because others desperately need to see themselves in your eyes. Reaching out in understanding is vital to others because others need to know someone understands them. Others need to know you are trying to walk in their shoes. Others need to know you understand them or you want to understand them. In trying to understand others, we may often find we understand little about them. Yet even when we understand little about others but still communicate we are trying to understand them, we are at least trying to build a bridge to them. When we make attempts to build bridges of understanding to others, then understanding can begin to form. We must try to build bridges of understanding with others even when we disagree with them�even when we are afraid of them�even when we are appalled or repelled by them. We need to build bridges of understanding with others because others need to know we are trying to understand them, care for them, care about them, and love them.

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