We’re called to love everyone.

We’re not called to be close to everyone.

There’s a difference.

We all have unique roles, and not everyone is conducive to accomplishing what one has set out to do.

We are called to love everyone but not be close to everyone — sounds odd, but we do need boundaries.

When the “wrong” person draws close, the situation can turn “toxic.”

We adopt their “mindset.”

Hover on that word a moment.

Mindset.

When you’re around certain people, does it rub off? If they’re depressed, does it cause depression in you?

If it does, you need to pray about it — and establish a border, while praying in a special way for the person (as a little mission).

Boundaries?

“NO CROSSING.”

There is tension — a first indicator that something isn’t right.

There may be confusion.

A true alarm: when a situation or person becomes an obsession.

All of the above, and more, result from proximity to the wrong spirit.

It doesn’t mean a person is “lesser” spiritually. It doesn’t mean a person or evil or bad. It means that the person is not in the life course and designs God has fashioned for you, at least not intimately.

And unnatural closeness — closeness for the sake of closeness, or because one feels guilty, or because, in one’s mind, a person should be close (even though our spirits feel the opposite) — shortcuts what we are called to do, experience, and learn in this life.

Anyone who stymies spiritual growth is not in God’s plan for you.

Be open without compromising the configuring of your mission. Reject no one. Accept everyone. Especially, love everyone (however hard). But kept your spirit intact. Let no darkness bleed onto or into it.

The One we are all called for closeness to is God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

No borders there. No boundaries.