When you confuse attention with love

Who you walk with shapes where you are going.

Proverbs 13:20

When you confuse attention with love. This is the kind of moment that can expose what has really been running underneath. Not everything involved in this situation belongs in your hands. Bring your actual part to Jesus Christ and release the role you were never given. A loving heart still needs wise boundaries and clear eyes. Jesus Christ can teach you to love without surrendering authority He never gave another person. Be faithful with the next concrete step. Do not turn responsibility into an attempt at control.

What outcome are you trying to secure by sheer effort? How could you remain responsible without trying to become sovereign?

Jesus Christ, I place the ending of this situation back in Your hands. Let me do my part with integrity and leave Your part in Your hands. Amen.