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We do anything we can think of to alleviate their pain, to remind them they’re worthy of lovingkindness—because God says they are.
What I was being accused of is not reflective of the type of person I want to be.
For godly people and leaders specifically, pain is often the tool God uses to help us realize our passion and purpose.
Sincere believers can disagree on certain matters, sometimes quite strongly, and still maintain deep respect, honor, and affection toward each other.
May we show the world whose we are by our love for one another.
I wasn’t hungry, but I was starving for space, for the comfort in knowing that no words are needed to experience the fullness of being wholly alive.
Every single woman I have encountered has battled the same thing.
How do imperfect, frail human beings find the resources to heal from distancing and rejection, to respond to such violence with such love, and to commit to “work on their own healing” instead of retaliating with their own forms of aggression?
The Enemy is out to steal, kill, and destroy. But we have been given all the tools we need to fight and win.
With more than fifteen years of counseling experience, I have learned that both those who follow Jesus and those who do not are longing and desperately searching for happiness.
In order to move from awareness to acknowledgment, we must first be brave enough to accept the historical truths and modern realities.
For all of us, the universal call is to lay down our swords, listen, learn from our differences, and build something beautiful.
It’s a relationship that is beautifully flawed, continually worked on, and sealed in sacrifice.
In the lonely moments, I was focusing on the empty feeling of Harold’s not being by my side instead of the fullness of God’s presence with me each step of every day.
To rise out of a defeated and self-loathing place, it also took the tender, tenacious voice of a She to remind me of a grace that says to my limp, ‘Rise and walk.’
