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Tears

God's nature was first revealed to me when I read The Living Translation of Psalm 56:8 "You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book." A God who would keep track of every single tear is an infinitely compassionate God. He is a being who doesn't JUST care about what makes me sad, He KEEPS TRACK of it, He RECORDS it, He COLLECTS it. It became clear to me that God did, indeed, love me with an unfathomable love. When I was first working out my faith, it only took one verse to get me going for weeks. Now, I happily look and find God's nature revealed to me within the entire Bible. He is always the same. He is ALWAYS there, not just in the Psalms (where there might be hundreds of references of tears and sorrow and crying that God has heard and vindicated). In Ecclesiastes 12:14, it says, "For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good o...

Grief

Grief can come like a gradual creeping shadow. It can freeze your heart and condense it. It shoves you among the thorns, suddenly, and no matter how you move, you are cut and scraped. It clenches your mind and will not let go. Even in that moment, the moment where grief captures you, stunned in an unfathomable darkness, God is with you. He is watching your face, waiting to catch you. He holds you, even as you fall. He longs to comfort you. God wants you to trust in Him...not because He will just PLUCK you out of the sorrow and completely make it washed away...no. He will be there to love you through it. He will keep track of every one of your tears. He will be there to break you open so you can see who you really are. He will use the cuts and scrapes to pull out the true you. He wants to show you the amazing person He has made you, and like it or not, you are made whole ONLY by being broken open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Psalm 10:14 ...

Absolutely

Our world is a forest of trees. Yes, it absolutely is...listen: Our lives begin in the roots of the strangeness of the human condition: our birthings and our dyings, the electricity in our brains and the souls in that electricity. The roots say, "You have so many toes, so many fingers, this kind of knee, that kind of nose." The roots say, "You have questions and hunger, desires and breathing to do." Our DNA is wrapped around those roots and creates people who grow up in collections called communities. The communities are the trunks in this forest of trees. The trunks say to their people, "Girls are sleek and beautiful and have the best ideas when they speak this way and Boys always have the wrong things to say, you'll never be able to trust a boy because they have no feelings other than when they will get to have sex or talk about sex, or otherwise make you feel uncomfortable to be a girl." The trunks say, "God is unknowable, we know this b...

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