The sooner we admit our vulnerability to ourselves, to our friends, and to our children, the sooner we can stop holding ourselves and our kids hostage to unattainable ideals, and lead them instead into the rest and freedom of life with Christ.
The recognition of my lack of control over my family and the world they live in frees me to give the problem of their security over to the Lord himself.
Normal isn’t going back to the way things were. Normal is growth. Normal is releasing our belief that “the way things were” is the model of what is best.
We speak the truth of God and defend the hope within us as citizens of a greater Kingdom. So, what does this look like in this political age?
Though my parents are human and imperfect, their relentless love regularly points me back to the love of God.
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If you are one who believes that you are radically loved by Jesus, you can – and should – step out in faith during this time.
The Lord was able to take a hard, very 2020 experience, and use it for good as we took what was once painful and used it to minister to others who would come to the same journey later.
When we accept that difficulty is inevitable because of our broken world, we stop treating God as the one who takes away our comfort and start bowing in submission to a God who reveals His loving hand through our suffering.
