
From the Daily Sip: Fear
The vulnerability of life is pain, and the worry about pain is fear.
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The vulnerability of life is pain, and the worry about pain is fear.
I’ve written before about the importance of imperfection. Lately I’ve been thinking about it more and more. Tonight I was watching a video on how
…we don’t choose trust as a formula to get what we want. Despite our faithfulness, terrible things will occasionally happen. Instead, we trust restorative Love because that is who we have become, and that is the way we relate to the world, even in the bleakest of circumstances.
“But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.” (Mark 9:32)
“When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came towards them early in the morning, walking on the
a loving community in which we can be ourselves fully helps us to live into wholeness and freedom, into who we most deeply are.
The thing that struck me about the disciples, however, it that no matter how confused they get they still act. They continue to follow Jesus and he continues to upset their preconceived notions of what he should be doing
It is all too easy to look at what is right in front of us and believe that there’s nothing else. But, we might learn more about what’s really valuable by examining what we don’t see, never noticed, or what has come and gone.
Belonging to Christ is a very real, life-changing state of being, something not to be hidden away. We must speak our truth.
I keep looking to Jesus and hoping to hear that “Don’t be afraid.” It’s all I really have to cling to. Somehow, I hope my faith in that one simple statement will be enough.
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