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Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
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2011
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Graceful (for Young Women): Letting Go of Your Try-Hard Life
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2012
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“The story of redemtion and healing is that Jesus came to exchange my not-good-enough with his better-than-I-could-ever-imagine. He came to trade my life for His, my weak for His strong, my ashes for His beauty. He longs for each of us to recieve the gift of Himself.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
― Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
“The best part of hiding is being found.”
― Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
― Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
“You are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her" (Luke 10:41-42)
Choosing to please God sounds right at first, but it so often leads to a performing life, a girl trying to become good, a lean-on-myself theology. If I am trying to please God, it is difficult trust God. But when I trust God, pleasing him is automatic.
Anything we do to get life and identity outside of Christ is an idol, even service to Christ. He doesn't want my service. He wants me. And from that life-giving relationship, "streams of living water will flow from within" (John 7:38 NIV)”
― Emily P. Freeman
Choosing to please God sounds right at first, but it so often leads to a performing life, a girl trying to become good, a lean-on-myself theology. If I am trying to please God, it is difficult trust God. But when I trust God, pleasing him is automatic.
Anything we do to get life and identity outside of Christ is an idol, even service to Christ. He doesn't want my service. He wants me. And from that life-giving relationship, "streams of living water will flow from within" (John 7:38 NIV)”
― Emily P. Freeman
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