Pray for the countless victims of sexual assault who will be retraumatized through the Kavanaugh hearings today.
As they hear trauma experiences dismissed, downplayed, and denied they will be hurting.
Our national dialogue has real pastoral consequences.
Be gentle with yourselves today, friends. I know some of you will be hearing your own story repeated back to you. In some contexts that can be healing- in others it can be harmful. As best you can, fight for your own continued healing and know that you don’t fight alone. 💜
Don’t go to church to be entertained. Don’t go to meet a social quota. Don’t go to keep God happy. Don’t go because you happen to feel like it.
Go because you need it. You need your brothers and sisters, and they need you. Go because the Savior you share is worth it.
Trusting the Lord to be our Shepherd can be hard. We want control. We want answers. And we most certainly do not want to follow Him through hard places.
But the Good Shepherd has good plans for His sheep. And we can trust the One who willingly laid down His life for His sheep.