Thank you, gracious God, for your steadfast love and patience with me. Even though I persist in the misuse of the creation gifts you have given me, you continue to call me out of my incompleteness into the wholeness you have for me in Christ. Even when I try to hide behind a “spirituality” that confirms me in my incompleteness and brokenness, your love neither abandons me nor tolerates my evasions. Your love becomes troubling grace that shakes my foundations and breaches my defenses. Help me to let you do your disturbing work in my life in this chapter. Let it become for me a mirror in which
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