When you offer peace instead of division, faith instead of fear, when you offer someone a place at your table instead of keeping them out because they‘re different or wrong somehow, you represent the heart of Christ.
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When you offer peace instead of division, faith instead of fear, when you offer someone a place at your table instead of keeping them out because they‘re different or wrong somehow, you represent the heart of Christ.
If there‘s one thing I think I know for sure about 2025, it‘s that if anything good comes out of it, those are going to have been some hard fought hallelujahs!
“Many who are working among the suffering…thought they were going as the benefactors but they invariably found themselves being helped and liberated themselves.”
(Just one of the insights from this book that resonates with me. This little book is one of my favorites as well as the book of Job in the Bible is my favorite.)
#prophet #CharacterCharm
It‘s sloppy theology to think that all suffering is good for us, or that it‘s a result of sin. All suffering can be used for good, over time, after mourning and healing, by Gods graciousness. But sometimes it‘s just plain loss, not because you needed to grow or learn any kind of lesson. The trick is knowing the difference between the two.
Pain is sometimes a call for growth—and sometimes a companion of mourning.
Friendship doesn‘t always mean being partners in crime; sometimes, at it‘s best, it requires exactly the opposite—an honest word, a push, a loving correction.
One of the best things great friendship does is tell us the truth about ourselves when we need it most.
Let‘s set a new example for a generation of young women who are watching us closely. Let‘s teach them by our example to be women who work hard, who pay attention to their dreams, who give themselves to making the world a better place, women who believe that there are a whole lot of things more important than being the prettiest princess in the room.
We need both halves of the story: the suffering and the redemption. Either part by itself is incomplete.
I‘ve also decided to order this Bible from Guideposts. I have a study bible I read when I was a teenage girl and I read all of it from the beginning to the end but I like the idea of this being read every day and that it says it reads like an epic novel. I haven‘t ever read a daily Bible before. How will I find the time to read this and other books that I want to read? I don‘t want to only read this. I want to read other things too.
