Life Together

I've received some great encouragement through conversations with good friends lately.

It reminded me of something Dietrich Bonhoeffer says in "Life Together". "The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer."

I think we grossly underestimate how we can easily and lovingly impact others around us. A line in a Denise Levertov poem, also confirms this idea for me. The poem is about marriage, but it applies to other relationships too:

The force

of your commitment charges us-we live

in the sweep of it, taking courage

one from the other.”