Mitch Albom<\/a>, one of my favorite writers, came out with a book called “The Five People You\u2019ll Meet in Heaven.”\u00a0 It was wildly successful, so much so that it was turned into a movie.\u00a0 Great work, great imagination, I loved it.<\/p>\nSince then I\u2019ve also thought about the five people you meet, not in heaven, but on the way to heaven.<\/p>\n
Being from the South, we have a way of hiding our true condition.\u00a0 When we meet people we ask them, \u201cHow are you doing?\u201d\u00a0 And the polite response is, \u201cI\u2019m fine.\u00a0 How are you?\u201d Then you respond, \u201cI\u2019m doing fine as well.\u201d\u00a0 And then you go on.\u00a0 This would be ok if it were true.\u00a0 But let\u2019s face it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
So here are the five people you meet every day.<\/strong> They are around you, they work with you, and for you.\u00a0 They are in your family.\u00a0 You\u2019re even one of them.<\/p>\n\n- First, there\u2019s the broken.<\/strong> These are the people who have kind of a sad gaze because life has broken their spirit. Their dreams are broken.\u00a0 Oftentimes their marriages are broken.\u00a0 Relationships they thought would last a lifetime become broken. We often say someone is suffering from a broken heart.\u00a0 These are the people who need other people to come up close to them and help them see the good that can come out of the pain.<\/li>\n
- The second kind of person you meet are the beat-up. <\/strong>These are the people who have been in the fight, but are just weary.\u00a0 We can see how they truly were emotionally.\u00a0 Many of them will have a cast on their arm, splints on their legs.\u00a0 They\u2019ll be using a walking cane or crutches.\u00a0 They\u2019ll have a patch over their eye.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been beat up by life.\u00a0 They\u2019re still swinging, but they are injured. And if they don\u2019t find a way to get up again, they may just be a casualty.<\/li>\n
- The third kind of person are the bored. <\/strong> These are the people it\u2019s hard to feel sorry for, or to conjure up any compassion.\u00a0 These are the people who have reached their goals, you know them.\u00a0 They are the people for whom life seems to come easy.\u00a0 They\u2019ve reached their dreams, they make a lot of money, live in big houses, have seemingly fine families and great lives. These are the people who have succeeded in every way in life except the way that truly matters.\u00a0 They see their achievements as hollow, shallow, and non-fulfilling.\u00a0 Their houses and cars are just things to be fed with more money.\u00a0 They see their blessings as burdens and their privileges as complications.<\/li>\n
- The fourth kind of person you meet are the betrayed<\/strong>.\u00a0 These are the people who no longer trust people.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been thrown under the bus by the very people who promised they\u00a0 would have their back for the rest of their life.\u00a0 They understand that people get betrayed.\u00a0 They just never thought it would be them.<\/li>\n
- The fifth kind of person you meet on the way to heaven are the healers. <\/strong>These are the people who have been the broken, the bruised, the beat-up, the bored, and the betrayed.\u00a0 They have found their healing in the sweet glow of God\u2019s mercy.\u00a0 They\u2019ve understood who they are in Christ.\u00a0 They know that they are loved as they are, not as they ought to be.\u00a0 They\u2019ve embraced their identity and the promises that come along with it.\u00a0 They are sons and daughters of God who understand that nothing bad can happen to them that wasn\u2019t intended for good by their Heavenly Father.\u00a0 They affirm that no one can take from them or keep from them what God wants for them.\u00a0 They are the healers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
The question is, which are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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