One of my friends wrote these thoughts several years ago. It seems to me to be a beautiful portrait of a shepherd's heart, and I found that it well expressed my heart for the people God has given me to care for.
"Every now and then, when I reach out to one of my people, I get a surprised response, as though that one believed he or she had been forgotten.
Such would not be possible, for my heart lives among my people. In the empty spaces of my life, my mind flies to one...or another...or another. And the full spaces of my life are ever filled by them.
I revel in their triumphs.
I ache for their setbacks.
I strategize for their benefit.
In the early morning, in the dead of night, and continuously in between, my energies, my resources, my talents, my thoughts, my plans, my dreams, and all my love is toward them." - K. C. Giroux
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