Blessed – lucky – are those who cry. Blessed are those who are sad, who mourn, who feel the loss of what they love – because they will be held by the One who loves them. There is a strange and aching happiness only the hurting know – for they shall be held.
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.
Relationships only get to exist as long as they keep breathing in the air of mutual forgiveness, and he and I have found an uncommon grace. Grace can strike when you are in great pain and light you with the greatest hope. I.
It is no use for you to attempt to sow out of an empty basket, for that would be sowing nothing but wind,” wrote Spurgeon.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. Sarah Ban Breathnach.
Our broken hearts always break His.
It’s not that your heart isn’t going to break; it’s how you let the brokenness be made into abundance afterward.
This is what I know right then: the world is brokenhearted and full of suffering, and if you listen to what life needs instead of what you need from it, you could fill the brokenness with your own brokenhearted love – and this will in turn fill you. What if you were not afraid?
Every religion, every program, every self-help book is about steps you have to take. Jesus is the only One who becomes the step – to take you.
Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks. How did I ever think there was another way to enter into His courts but with thanksgiving?
Let love break into you and mess with you and loosen you up and make you laugh and cry and give and hurt because this is the only way to really live.
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now.
Be brave and do not pray for the hard thing to go away, but pray for a bravery that’s bigger than the hard thing.
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace.
Love breaks us vulnerably open – and then can break us with rejection.
Love only has logic, only has meaning, when it takes the form of the cross.
He’s inviting me to heal, but also to see my most meaningful calling: to be His healing to the hurting. My own brokenness, driving me into Christ’s, is exactly where I can touch the brokenhearted. Our.
We aren’t here to one-up one another, but to help one another up.
Something always comes to fill the empty places. And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.