I did something recently that was genuinely hard for me — not complicated, just vulnerable. I needed to ask about ten people for something, and every single ask was nerve-wracking. And then the universe made me ask again. And again. And what happened on the other side of all that asking was not what I expected.

Kate Bowler writes in No Cure for Being Human: "We are as fragile as the day we were born, and we will need each other if we're going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between, but there's no cure for being human." Needing people is not a design flaw. It is the design. And the silence around the need costs everyone more than the ask ever would.

Question to carry into your day: What are you protecting someone from needing, that they might actually want to give?

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