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Is there a grace that can bury the fear that your faith isn’t big enough and your faults are too many? A grace that washes your dirty wounds and wounds the devil’s lies? A grace that embraces you before you prove anything—and after you’ve done everything wrong?
“Shame is a bully but grace is a shield. You are safe here.”
It’s always safe for the suffering here. You can struggle and you can wrestle and you can hurt and we will be here. Grace will meet you here; grace, perfect comfort, will always be served here.
He never treats those who hurt on the inside as less than those who hurt on the outside.
God has not forgotten you. God has not abandoned you. God’s love is around you everywhere. When you feel in your marrow how you’re His Beloved, you do more than look for signs of His love in the world, more than have a sign of His love; you actually become a sign of His love.
“Maybe the love gets in easier right where the heart’s broke open?”
“The seed breaks to give us the wheat. The soil breaks to give us the crop, the sky breaks to give us the rain, the wheat breaks to give us the bread. And the bread breaks to give us the feast. There was once even an alabaster jar that broke to give Him all the glory.”
there is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound—no abundance without breaking.
“And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them
Augustine claimed, “Without exception . . . all try their hardest to reach the same goal, that is, joy.
“took the seven loaves and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and they in turn to the people”?
The miracle happens in the breaking.
Not enough was given thanks for, and then the miracle happened: There was a breaking and a giving—into a kind of communion—into abundant filling within community. The miracle happens in the breaking.
daring me to let all the not-enough there in my open hands—let it be broken into more than enough? A dare to let all my brokenness—be made into abundance.
Out of feeling lavishly loved by God, one can break and give away that lavish love—and know the complete fullness of love.
Somehow . . . the miracle of communion, oneness, wholeness, abundance, it happens in the exact opposite—in breaking and giving.
Continue to do this literally, with bread and wine—and continuously do this with your life, with the bread of your moments, the wine of your days.
This is the one and only command Christ gave to do continually over and over again. This is the practice He gave for us to practice our faith, to practice again and again. In remembrance of Him.
