What questions keep you up at night? When you find yourself doubting, where do those doubts come from? What do you internalize and find yourself stuck on, what lies get under your skin, what breaks you?
Strangely, one of the fastest ways to break me is to tell my your story of pain. Hearing other people share from their broken places is one of the greatest gifts; others stories of pain, of shame, or of how they have been hurt by their own actions or things someone has said to them is the fastest way to bring me to tears. It's also the fastest way to leave me up at night. When people who I love have been hurt in a way that seems unimaginable I find myself questioning if God is still good. (why my own pain doesn't trigger this is probably a blog for another day)
I don't know how many times you have found yourself wondering if there is any way to salvage a broken mess. Whether that is a kitchen experiment (ask me about making gnocchi... what a disaster) that went wrong, a sewing adventure that ended up 3 sizes too small, or a life that feels left in pieces, like Humpty Dumpty who has fallen from the wall - what do you do with those questions? Where do you turn?
In the quiet do you hear the words being sung over you? It's going to be ok. Friends, it's going to be ok.
Where do you need to be reminded of this truth? Where do you need to hear that God is close? Maybe you're in that low place for just this moment. Can you hear his voice? He is close...
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. - Psalm 34:18
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