CARING

What truly is caring? Where does that term become a gift and not something that hurts or brings pain?

So hard it is at times to focus that caring, which doesn't help truly is beneficial. Still we do get that frame of reference at times.

I always enjoyed dealing with people who said they wanted to help, but really didn't. Just wanted the image of help.

And when the heart is bent towards a given frame of thought, but never actually is intent on actually helping it does take its toll on people. We just get our expectations raised to think this time will be different and it never is.

I really wish that life wasn't so full of such contradictions. The times when we participate in making it all seem like a nightmare.

Which only makes the problems worse and the reality never improves. Does any of this impress the Lord? No.

He does see our heart and knows our intentions. Regardless of how much we wish to impress and all, without truth it doesn't matter.

All the trappings and actions having none of God's love attached mean little. And sadly too much of what is peddled as love is just for show.

Oh that doesn't mean it won't look sincere. But if you honestly don't care while trying to be caring it does fall short of helping.

There is something sad when help is offered that makes the person feel less than a real person. Robbing them of their dignity never helps.

Only some never seem to appreciate that problem. They want to help, but only if it makes them feel superior.

This never in any way improves the point or purpose of such activities. They are the nature of when we dangle other purposes besides aid.

At the core then is the real question of why? Why do what God wants instead of anything else?

The answer can take a life time to really find. For it lies within. And those can be hard to find.

Because they must come from the soul. And sometimes our spiritual ears get clogged singing our own praises.