Have you ever heard of breath prayers? If you haven’t, they’re basically little one-sentence blessings, cries for help, reminders, etc. I just love them and think they’re pretty revealing, so here’s some of mine from this month:
Silence does not mean absence.
Would I listen on Your behalf.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Despite myself, You are keeping me.
Joy is vulnerable!
Teach me your way, Lord.
Give me the words to say.
Would I be honest and grateful.
My life is not my own.
Questions and Quotes —
Is it easier to cause pain or to feel pain?
“First, one can so emphasize a universal, metaphysical principle to which one is committed that one fails to understand the particulars of what one is analyzing. Second, one can become so preoccupied with the particulars that one fails to see the significance of the more general context.” — Carl R. Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
What’s the point of relationships? Why do we so desperately need them?
“Vulnerability without boundaries isn’t real vulnerability.” — Brene Brown
Who do you look up to? Why?
“The means through which God guides us and shapes us is most often through his company and presence rather than through regulations or something like that.” — my friend William Leaton
— Brooke