“The same hand that unwraps the firmaments of winging stars wraps liniments around the wounded heart; the One whose breath births galaxies into being births healing into the heart of the broken.”- Ann Voskamp “Maybe the love gets in easier right where the heart’s broke open.”- Shalom Voskamp As Ann Voskamp concludes Chapter 1 of […]
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.”- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Ann Voskamp continues Chapter 1 of The Broken Way by wondering how the interior of the soul lives with- and through- broken things. Specifically, […]
“The very thing we are afraid of, our brokenness, is the door to our Father’s heart.”- Paul Miller “Behold, I am making all things new.”- Revelation 21:5 Ann Voskamp follows One Thousand Gifts with her second book, The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life. Ann opens Chapter 1 (“What to Do with […]
“The two essential categories needing ministry and wounding and brokenness.”- John Eldredge As John Eldredge concludes Chapter 15 of Moving Mountains, he explores the categories of wounding and brokenness. John believes it is important to draw a distinction between the two. 1. Wounding. John compares wounding to taking an arrow to the heart and soul. […]
It has been said that at the start of every friendship are the words me too.”- Matt Bays “Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”- C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves In Chapter 9 […]
“And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.”- Jeremiah 18:4 Kyle Idleman concludes Chapter 1 of The End of Me with the encouragement that God loves to make the broken beautiful. William MacDonald […]
In Chapter 1 of The End of Me, Kyle Idleman asserts the plain truth is “as much as we fight it, we long for the freedom to admit we’re broken.” We don’t, however, consciously realize our need to do it. While that lack of realization is true for each of us, it’s most certainly true […]
“It’s not a question of being broken; it’s a question of brokenness.”- Kyle Idleman Kyle Idleman continues his discuss of “A Sinful Woman Forgiven” (Luke 7:36-50) with what he considers to be the real question we should struggle with after reading Luke’s account: Who do you want to be most like, Simon or the sinful […]