...we grieve not only the wound but also the fact that we can be wounded. We feel that either we're not doing faith right or that faith—that Jesus—has let us down. We don't consider it "pure joy" when our faith is tested. We consider it failure.
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I'm beginning to think our expectations are not just unrealistic, they're anti-gospel.
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"What do people mean when they say 'I am not afraid of God, because he is good?'" asked C.S. Lewis, musing on this idea. "Have they never even been to a dentist?"
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Almost all the new beginnings in my life have come from what felt at the time like terrible endings.
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