Episode 4: What Do You Need?
The multitude tried to silence the blind man’s cries for mercy as they passed by in pursuit of Jesus. Their desire to follow Jesus got in the way of their ability to see the needs of the one. Cynthia and Susan discuss lessons they’re learning about the importance of stopping, really seeing people, and asking what they need.
Notes & Quotes:
Luke 18:35-43
Lehi, Utah Talk to LGBTQ Youth, Encircle Summit, by Carol Lynn Pearson, 12/07/2019
You Are My Hands, by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, April 2010 General Conference
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, by Rachel Held Evans
“Christ did not just speak about love, He showed it each day of His life. He did not remove Himself from the crowd. Being amidst the people, Jesus reached out to the one. He rescued the lost. He didn’t just teach a class about reaching out in love and then delegate the actual work to others, He not only taught but also showed us how to ‘succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.’ Christ knows how to minister to others perfectly. When the Savior stretches out His hands, those He touches are uplifted and become greater, stronger, and better people as a result.” —Elder Uchtdorf, You Are My Hands (2010)
“I realized that just as I sat in church with my doubt, there were those sitting in church with their sexuality, their race, their gender, their depression, their addictions, their fears, their pasts, their infertility, their eating disorder, their diagnosis, their missed rent, their mess of a marriage, their sins, their shame.” —Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday
“We can be sufficiently creative and sufficiently kind that we will draw circle upon circle upon circle, bringing each other in, leaving no one out, joining, linking, enlarging until the pattern of the whole human family, seen through the eye of God, is complete.” —Carol Lynn Pearson, Encircle Summit (2019)