Cross Roads

by William Paul Young

soul is

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.”

Love will never condemn you for being lost, but love will not let you stay there alone, even though it will never force you to come out of your hiding places.”

there is nothin’ fair in a broken world full of broken people. Justice tries to be fair, but fails at every turn. There is never anything fair about grace or forgiveness. Punishment never restores fair. Confession doesn’t make things fair. Life is not about granting the fair reward for the right performance. Contracts, lawyers, disease, power, none of these care about fair.

the old must be torn down for the new to be raised; to

have a resurrection you must have a crucifixion, but God wastes nothing, not even the wrong we have imagined into existence. In every building torn down there is much that remains that was once true and right and good, and that gets woven into the new; in fact, the new could not be what it is without the old. It is the refurbishing of the soul.