I was asked to represent, on paper, what was most valuable in a friend. A few people came to mind, and they had this in common: someone who, though coming from a different sphere, is able to see your gifts and helps you recognise them when you can’t.
It’s a friendship that’s mutually compassionate, unpossessive, and life-giving.
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities.
– Viktor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning
It is so, or it ought to be, with the love of a true friend, a partner, a parent, a teacher… After all, it is so with the love of God.
Under Reconstruction 
same book for quarantine 😉 blessings x
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I am thankful that my Lord, Jesus Christ, can see the deepest parts of me; he can see my goodness that isn’t self-evident. We as Christians must look closely and still fail to see the goodness in others well hidden. Thank you. God continue to bless your vision.
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Great post!
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Love–the greatest gift of all!!
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