Comments on Growing Is Beautiful: If You're Feeling Broken

@Bernadette: Thank you for coming over to visit--...

2012-02-08T07:44:05.161-08:00

@Bernadette: Thank you for coming over to visit--your poetry is already blessing me immensely and I am so grateful to have found you through Ann's blog. Grace to you, new friend!

Oh...so beautiful. Thank you for stopping by free...

2012-02-04T13:17:11.002-08:00

Oh...so beautiful. Thank you for stopping by freedom journal and whispering words of life. And thanks for sharing yours here.
Bernadette
www.thefreedomjournal.blogspot.com

@Chris: As always, you have offered wise words he...

2012-02-02T20:43:45.042-08:00

@Chris: As always, you have offered wise words here--thank you. It's funny because you'd think I would have expected exactly this kind of "stripping away" when I felt Him impressing on me this idea that He alone was my home. But God is gracious, the way He shields us sometimes, let's us find out slowly, bit by bit, the cost of what He is teaching. There was no way to avoid the grieving in this stripping away but I am finding Him here and breathing, breathing, breathing--and slowly I am letting go of what needs to be released.

I am listening to the song you mentioned right now...and listening again...and again...so beautiful. This line is the one that grabbed me first: "I found in Him a resting place, and He has made me glad." I'm picturing the House of His Love, Him surrounding, me resting in Him, and a heart *glad* because He's my Home and I am Loved and there's no where else I'd rather be.

Thank you--for wisdom, for friendship across the big wide world, for prayers.

Grace to you, Chris. Always Grace.

@V: Thank you so much for stopping over to read m...

2012-02-02T20:23:51.163-08:00

@V: Thank you so much for stopping over to read my scratched out words here. Yes, you are so very right--pain brings growth. Growing is beautiful and miraculous and oh-so-worth all the struggle. But it is messy and long and sometimes very painful. God is definitely at work and for that I am incredibly grateful--no matter the hurt along the way. And for your prayers? I am humbled and deeply thankful. Much grace to you!

hi Courtney, the way you've been learning tha...

2012-02-02T02:15:39.114-08:00

hi Courtney,

the way you've been learning that "when we've got nothing at all to our names but His Love, *we have everything*" has involved some really hard eucharisteo, and i very much wish it didn't have to be so hard. but i wonder: however hard (that is, painful) it is to learn that lesson by having other things stripped away, isn't it desperately hard (that is, difficult) to learn that when we have nothing but God's love, we still have everything, if we still have everything else?

thanks for the "everything and nothing" link last time, which seemed to me very much "in theme" with your post. there's a song that this post (and especially, your reference to Living Water) made me think of, which I hope you'll like, if you don't already know it. it's Audrey Assad's version of "I heard the voice of Jesus say"--less uptempo than some, but (to my mind) beautiful. so far as i know, it hasn't been released, but if you google "Audrey Assad: I heard the voice of Jesus say", it should come up as one of a number of tunes on her web site.

praying for your "growing and birthing",

chris

Just finished posting my blog and jumping around a...

2012-02-01T17:17:34.399-08:00

Just finished posting my blog and jumping around and stopped here. After reading your honesty and feeling your hurts I remember that pain brings growth......always. Sounds like you are doing some growing. My prayers are with you tonight.