Opus 2025-416: Need a Hug?

There’s a big difference between being accepted a hug and being hugged.  One reflects a commitment involving listening, understanding, enduring relationships, and the other simply expresses a momentary emotion of support or just social expectation.

I’m not a big hugger.  I’m quite willing to hug my family and have been known to chase my grandchildren across the house with arms stretched wide as they run away squealing.  All that is wonderful.  I do not however by nature, throw my arms wide when I see someone.  That’s not how I greet.  Because I am a pleaser, cough, cough, I am willing to go through the process of hugging if that’s what somebody needs.  I will often ask them, just to clarify, “Are you a hugger?”  Usually, they will say yes.  And so I graciously condescend to hug them back.

God is both a hugger and an acceptor.  Of course there are times when He refuses to do either one.  He hugs when we just need a momentary touch of encouragement.  He accepts when we have those long conversations and I’m looking for the right word or trying to express something from deep inside me.  He saves judgment for the great white throne.  Because He accepts as a general attitude for His children, I am quite confident in opening my heart my mind when I’m with Him.

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