Bearing With

My dear friends who I love and find living the ins and outs 
of this crazy mortal life at my side, when that moment comes 
and one of you stumbles and fails to be all that God has made you to be
and you find yourself more in need of grace than ever,
the others of us who are seeking to hear His voice 
and know His Spirit in each moment of the delicate dance,
we must re-store, bring you back to the provision of heaven
our hearts open and desirous of His best in your life,
not tied to our own agendas or opinions
not assuming that we know how your story ends,
but humbly recognizing that we too mis-step sometimes.

We must shoulder the weight of the lives He gave us,
recognizing that we are walking in the way of love,
love that unconditionally went to the Cross 
even in the face of betrayal, abandonment and rejection.

Let none of us think that we are above helping each other,
that we have a right to sit smugly in judgement or self-protection,
for the moment we refuse to love is the moment we live a lie.

paraphrase of Galatians 6.1-3