it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything

[Elaine Hansen]

This is not so much a blog - as my way of encouraging the A Small Group community to continue to build relationship where ever we show up...blessings my friends.

Thomas Merton wrote, in a letter to a friend he advised:

Do not depend on the hope of results… you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and achieve no result at all, if not perhaps the opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself… You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people… in the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

[John Teeling]

I agree. Great post and great words.