Here we are, on Monday, facing a new week of relationships.
Think of the thorniest relationship(s) in which you are embroiled. Negative swirls in your mind, needing to right an obvious wrong, withhold your approval, set straight what you can see that others cannot--or whatever action drives your heart in the controversy.
What if we take a breath and think outside the relationship box?
What if we bear admiration while studying the relationship? What do I admire about that other person? Can I see that person with the lens of God?
I would think that the first pose God strikes with us in a given moment is admiration--He is admiring His creation. He sees us as He made us to be, not necessarily fraught with all of our indulgences and wrong turns. He can get above our fray and see the true heart He gave each of us.
He is the ultimate Bearer of Admirer.
When we openly admire, we lead others to do the same. It is like changing the balance of the ship so that it is righted--it is not listing precariously with the weight of slicing and dicing that person.
This week is an open sea of choices. If each of us is captain of our own ship, I hope we are bearers of admirer. We can ask God for His view of that person.
We might find He's especially fond of him or her.
