When someone opens her life to you, she's actually inviting you to a relationship--to growing together. Any answers and companionship in suffering you offer exist within the larger context of "we are on a journey together of learning to see and experience more of Christ in us as we live in his kingdom." Answers are important, but they're not the end goal. We do struggle together to make sense of life, but struggle is not the end goal. The end goal is to see a little bit more of Jesus than we did earlier.
--William P. Smith, Loving Well (Even If You Haven't Been) (Greensboro, NC: New Growth, 2012), 44.
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