What words of comfort can you give to a person who has lost everything? A person whose home is so desolated that there is more tarp than house. The best I could muster was, “Don’t worry. We’ll take good care of you.”
There is Daylight
I’m usually pretty good with words, in writing anyway. But after the second meeting in a week, I’m completely awestruck at the perseverance and grace of my fellow man.
In two separate conversations, with two completely different clients, talking about the hard realities of what insurance will and won’t cover, deadlines, trying to get houses put together and occupied in time for the fall semester for their children… both families made it a point to reach out and offer a meal, to me, once all is said and done.
Knowing that come fall I will have the honor to break bread with these same folks, who just two months ago I would have likely never met, under a new roof that we’re building together.
It’s amazing, and humbling.
It’s not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion.
Samuel Mockbee said that. I hope he’d approve.