Someone

Maybe you have a person like this in your life, too.

Someone who reminds you how ultimately, one human being cannot have power over another apart from actions that are truly inhumane.

Someone who reminds you that what is created is created with a tendency toward its Creator.

Someone who reminds you that the souls of the innocents desire what is right, and are deeply pained when they make mistakes and do the wrong thing instead.

Someone, who for some reason, biological or otherwise, is a child in an adult's body.

Someone whose actions grate on your heart for an hour, and then reduce you to awe for a moment.

Someone who reminds you that we all need patience and tenderness and chronic forgiveness.

Someone who reminds you to meet all people as they are, and not as you wish them to be.

Someone who will never stop calling you on to greater virtue just by existing.


Jesus, show me how. Give me your heart when mine wants to go and hide.