Daughters of Promise November/December 2014 | Page 37

ALLOW YOURSELF TO
BE STAGGERED BY THE

WONDER AND GLORY
OF THE PERSON
BESIDE YOU.

means that if we are choosing people who can
influence through conversation, I’ll take the gal over
a guy every time. You ladies have a superpower to
connect but some of you are either using this power
for yourself or not at all.
My sister Heidi gets it. She focuses on others a lot.
Last month it was the twenty-one-year-old Jessica**,
sitting on a park bench, looking despondent. Heidi
pulled over and walked over to her. She asked
Jessica about her situation, and as Heidi listened,
the story tumbled out. She had no money and
no house. The state took away her three children
because she was unable to care for them. The
fathers couldn’t even care for her, much less the
childr