“What if, instead of treating people like they need our fixer-upper help, we started treating people like the missing pieces that they are? Pieces that we desperately need. Voices we need to hear. Eyes whose perspective we require in order to see the whole picture. What if we sought them out not to change them, but to love them because we need each other? Valuable and beloved. Missing and missed. Needed.”
Tracey Solomon, writer and board member for MOPS International, from a blog post titled “Missing Pieces and Paradigm Shifts.” Catch more of her writing at traceysolomon.com