An older lady (yep, even older than me), leaned close so we could hear each other above the background noise of many other conversations. “Hi, I’m A______. What’s your name?” After short niceties, she got down to business in a kind way by asking direct questions about me. I answered her questions honestly, but…
Tag: welcoming
Listening
This weekend we were privileged to visit a landscape like no other we’d ever experienced. Steep mountainsides cut with waterfalls and topped with glaciers. Bare rock peaks wrapped in mist dropping into turquoise lakes. Not one peak, but hundreds standing shoulder to shoulder in every direction. The wind and the wildness pressed into us. There we…