good pairing

read this excerpt from dawn’s blog post, “The Idea Camp that Dared . . .” dawn carter blogs here: chroniclesofdawnia.com

We are not alone. No matter how isolated we feel, enveloped in shame or broken we feel, God sees us. He has healing for us and uses community to do it.

We need grace and truth. We are all jacked up and the sooner we all admit it, we can start cooperating with God on the restoring of our souls. I am not talking about moping around in housecoats of familiar dysfunction but creating places where grace (I accept you) coexists with tough truth and love (do what it takes to get healing, damn it).
We heal as we obey. Getting healing needs to move out from something drastic that really broken people do to something normal that people do on their way to looking like Jesus. We need to normalize brokenness in our churches and reframe it into the context of spiritual formation. I need to get healing for my broken heart because to do so is obedience. Jesus accepts me, but He loves me too much to leave me broken. His love must transform and restore.
We serve a holy and powerful God, able to break any chain forged by any hand. When my theology is anemic my hope remains small. Right thinking about God, his character, his tremendous love for me, his declarations of who I am…these are lifelines to a disoriented soul.

and listen to this:

words to build a life on by mike crawford and his secret siblings
mikecrawfordmusic.bandcamp.com/track/words-to-build-a-life-on

enjoy!

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