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When somebody is brave enough to show you her scariest parts and you welcome the little child in her (instead of running), something mysterious happens.
“Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts. When people listen to you cry and lament and look at you with love, it’s like they are holding the baby of you.” Anne Lamott
“Whoever welcomes a little child like this . . . welcomes Me.” Matthew 18:5
Dry ground is full of surprises that only happen after the spring rain comes.
Today, Father, please be like the spring rain to the dry ground of me.
“Return . . . and He will enliven . . . like the spring rain watering the earth.” Hosea 6:1-3
The more you see how broken you are, the easier it gets to live with other broken people.
“We are all more or less broken and wounded in our affections and in our capacity to relate.” Jean Vanier
“[B]earing with each other and freely forgiving. . . .” Colossians 3:13
If you live today piece by piece, chances are you’ll want to do it again tomorrow.
“Do not yield to the temptation of looking at everything at once, as if everything would happen at once, . . . [but] receive your day piece by piece from Him who will remember always, when He gives you work to do, that you need strength to do it.” Priscilla Maurice
“When I am overwhelmed, You know my path.” Psalm 142:3
When you feel so hard and dry inside that loving people today sounds as likely as walking on the moon, it’s a perfect time to see if miracles still happen.
Father, please take my hard, stony heart and give me the relief of a heart like Yours.
“I will take your hard, stony heart and give you a soft, responsive heart. . . . And people will say, 'This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden.’” Ezekiel 36:26, 35
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that God could love away all the dross in you. That’s why it’s good to put your own name in the blanks.
“Imagine a lump . . . of earth and dross, veined and flecked with gold and silver. . . . Imagine _____ . . . immerse[d] into the all-searing and consuming fire of His love.” Anthony Esolen
“God, who began the good work within _____, will complete it. . . .” Philippians 1:6
