If a church can buy the pastor a new iPad, it can pay the babysitters for a single mom.
If a church can spend 10k on a new sound system, it can spend 10k on a community garden in the inner city.
God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and main concern.
“Vulnerability isn’t winning or losing- it’s having the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome” @BreneBrown
* reminds self a million times a day *
Loving humanity is setting yourself up for one heartbreak after another.
But it’s still worth it. Truly.
Not just for the breakthroughs — as sweet as they are. But for the love of the broken ones.
And who among us is not one of the broken ones?
I am.
Broken. Beloved. Brave.
Jesus was the defender of women par excellence in a shaming culture of patriarchy. In sending a woman to proclaim the resurrection, Jesus was establishing a fundamental shift in human relationships.
In his kingdom, a woman's voice, testimony and story are to be taken seriously.
What an amazing thing it would be to have the rhythms of your life regularly usher you into such a deep trust that you could actually rest from it all
-Ruth Haley Barton, Sacred Rhythms
listening to understand doesn’t mean you are obligated to agree it just means you might make a friend rather than an enemy, you might build a bridge instead of a wall .
“I feel powerless and prayer reminds me that I am powerless, but there is power and the One who holds the power is good.”
- Shauna Niequest, Cold Tangerines 🍊
I don’t care where you stand on immigration America - but tearing young children out of the arms of their mothers and then warehousing them in ‘camps’ is sickening. The ends do not justify the means. We’re better than this.
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