Daily Devotionals

You are walking through an ordinary day and something inside you is quietly breaking. Nobody around you has noticed. You smile at the right moments and answer the right questions, and all the while you wonder whether anyone sees how heavy this has become.

A friend of mine spent a whole winter caring for a parent who was ill. She said what she remembers most is not the advice people gave. It was a neighbour who stood at her door one evening, looked at her face, and said nothing at all. Then she came in and washed the dishes.

Jesus meets a widow walking behind a funeral procession, burying her only son. She does not call out to him. She asks for nothing. Yet he sees her, and his heart goes out to her, and he stops the whole crowd. Before any miracle there is attention. He notices her before she says a word.

That is how he looks at you today. Not with impatience at how long this has taken, and not with a checklist of what you should have handled by now. He stops. He walks toward the part of your life you have been carrying alone. You do not have to make your pain presentable first. Let yourself be seen, and let his tenderness be the first thing you receive.