Who is the most important person in your life at this moment?

Often we tend to think of people in positions of great authority and power as being the most important people at the time in our society.
And yet ... who is the most important person in your life at this moment?

When we are in an institute and come up to the top of the queue with a query about our anxieties, we are dependent on the personnel behind the desk at that moment.

The way he or she treats us and our query leaves us feeling either empowered and assisted, or humiliated and disrespected.

For each of us, when we collapse and fall gravely ill and are unable to move or self-help, the most important person who wields the greatest power in our lives is the person who is near us at the time. 

When we are a child, our guardian is the most important person in our life at that moment.
The way we are treated can have profound impact on our lives and emotions.

When we are at school, the teacher is the most important person in our life at that moment.

When we are at work, our boss is the most important person in our life at that moment.

How we are treated by the person wielding power in our life at a particular moment can have profound impact - for good or bad.

And just as others have power over us, we have power over others.

At work. In our family. Over our children. Over our life partner. 
How do we use this power?

Years ago, I saw the picture of two young boys. One had his arm protectively around his younger brother's shoulders. The message under the picture read;
I may forget what you did.
I may forget what you said.
I will never forget how you made me feel.

Let us use our power over others to bring them
Happiness
Ease in their difficult times
Love and the bedrock of our faithfulness to them in their lives.