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“Music settles my own soul, chases away the shadows.
Only the giver of life has sovereignty over death.”
“There will always be storms, Shira. There will be loss in your life, sometimes devastating loss. But if you let the wind and the rain overcome you, then you will never fulfill the purpose for which you were born, the reason Yahweh gave you breath and brought you to this time, to this place. There will be times when there is nothing you can do but survive, to place one foot after the other into the driving rain.”
it is not you or I who hold life in our hands. We are not Yahweh. We are only vessels to be used for his purposes.”
“You are telling yourself lies and believing them. Instead of putting the oil of truth on those scars, you are allowing them to grow thicker. If you do not stretch those scars, tug at them, force movement into them, then they will continue to have a hold over you.”
“But until you accept the storms, and stop blaming yourself for them, you will not see how Yahweh has blessed you with them.”
“Without witnessing the mercilessness of an evil king, we would not appreciate the kindness of our own. Without the bitterness of slavery, we wouldn’t know the sweetness of freedom. Without the blackness of the night sky, there would be no stars.”
I have been nurturing my scars instead of speaking truth to myself and allowing them to heal.
It seems to me that Yahweh somehow takes the broken parts of us and builds something better than we could imagine.”
I needed to stretch the scar, even if it hurt, so that it did not hold me captive anymore.
“It is not the perfection that matters, sweet Shira, it is the love of the one who created it.”
Lay your broken pieces down before Yahweh and let him make you into something new.”
