Caring

Blogs can be so therapeutic.  They can help with processing everything and help with healing.  But the times that you need to write one but do not really want the whole world knowing your personal crap can be quite tricky.  Because, if you think about it, there are very few people who actually care.  I mean fully care like Christ does.  It is kind of interesting to see the dynamic in caring as well.  In nursing school we learn about caring in the first semester.  We learn about how its the one thing that it takes to make a good nurse.  You can know everything there is to know about nursing but if you don't care you are not going to get good patient outcomes.  

Often caring is so skewed.  We either care in the good times or we care in the bad times or we don't care at all.  You know those people who are always there for you when life is great.  They have fun laughing with you, but when times get tough they pull away.  Or those people who are there for you in really really hard times but you never hear from them again until something really really bad happens again.  Or those people who are there all the time but never really engaged with anything about you.  It is all about them and never about anyone else.

It takes a really special person to care through everything.  A person who is there for the highs and the lows.  A person who truly cares about everything going on in your life.  It takes Jesus Christ.  You can care in your own strength, but that caring soon becomes skewed.  If it is not skewed, it does not take long until that person becomes bitter and cold and burned-out.  Only a life that is given over to be filled with Christ every day can say that they are truly caring for those around them.

Most people who read this will just read it.  They will not care about what is written or the person writing it.  They will only care about what is going to happen after they finish reading these worthless words.  But if you do care the way Christ does you will show it.  Show that you care by putting others before yourself.  Show that you care by laughing with a friend or crying with a stranger.  Show that you care by telling everyone you can about Jesus Christ and the way he cares for them.