As I navigate life, I tend to focus on my interests, my responsibilities, my worries. All this focus on "me" generally responds to the needs of others with direct terse instructions and sarcasm focused on how they should behave or approach issues. Those habits are designed to keep their issues from becoming my issues. Christ's Invitation & Challenge approach reminds me that I must balance Challenge with huge doses of grace, empathy, compassion, and love. Intentional application has repaired several relationships that had the scar tissue of too much Challenge.