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Jesus came in the flesh to show us how to live in our flesh. We miss the incarnation when we view Jesus only through his death on the cross instead of through his life in the neighborhood.
Good news has to first of all be good, which is why it can’t be about religious legalism, empty ritual, or personal judgment. The good news Jesus brings is that more of the life and love from up there can show up down here in our every day lives right now.For links and more info, visit:https://www.meadowheights.com/hub
Bad religion, bleak lives and a broken world have always made it difficult for people to see God for who God really is. Jesus came in the flesh so people can see the real face and character of God and so our lives can reveal God now, too.
God longs to return to the good, beautiful, and true reality he created. So Jesus came in the flesh to get it all back and to show us the way. Because of his power over sin, death and hell, the dream God wanted from the beginning is once again coming true!
The story of Jesus is a story to hear and a story to share. In a bad news world, naming good news in my life can help others name good news in their lives, too. The best stories are the ones we tell together.
There is no brokenness or need we’ll encounter in our world that God doesn’t already see and care about more than we do. Because He is already present and working to bring his healing love to every situation, we get to partner with him to meet the needs of people and places around us in practical and impactful ways.
In a world full of increasing loneliness, isolation and division, intentional shared meals have the power to transform us. Eating together removes barriers, builds bridges and communicates belonging like almost nothing else can.
We live in a world where there’s more talking and less listening all the time. But when we listen with compassionate curiosity, God will reveal the desires of people he loves and the needs of places where he’s at work.
As God’s much-loved children, we have access to the blessing of life in God’s kingdom of love. When we notice where God is at work in and around us, we get to help him extend that blessing to others where we live, work, learn and play.
When we don’t know how we got the Bible, we won’t know how to read the Bible. But understanding the plot of the story and connecting the parts of the story helps us lean into and live out the point of the story.
When we can’t see God at work within an old story to tell a better story, we can lose hope. But a perspective bigger than the present moment often leads to a new story full of God’s goodness.
When we don’t know where we came from or why we’re here, our story gets lost among every other story. But when we recover the unique source of our story, we also discover the meaning we long for.
When what we expect from the Bible doesn’t square with what we experience of the Bible, we can be tempted to abandon the Bible & the God it represents. But knowing the backstory of the Bible raises our confidence in the Bible and the God of life and love it reveals.
Nothing can change the bad things that happened to you, but God cares. His heart is broken by the bad things that happen in our world, and his love is capable of healing your broken heart.
Focusing on negative thoughts perpetuates the world's system of death and destruction in us and around us. But when our thoughts are directed by God’s Spirit, we operate as God’s agents of life and peace in the world.
When we focus on the worry, we let our minds run wild with it. When we focus on our Father’s love and provision, we wake up to a God who is with us and working for our good.
I can feel beaten down until I even despair of life itself. But my feelings aren’t forever. God always provides help and hope when I need a way out.
Our overwhelming culture can lead us to be anxious about many things. But, we are not alone in our anxiety and we can practice an anxious free life that God invites us into.
Jesus is enough but my current capacity for trusting Jesus may not be. God makes help available when something blocks my access to peace while I’m learning to trust him more.
It’s unthinkable that death is the end of someone we love. That resistance deep inside us is an echo of the heart of God. We rejoice because Easter declares that LOVE, not death, gets the final word!
To learn from Jesus without practicing what he says is a foolish and unstable way to live your one and only life. Wise people build their lives on an unshakable foundation by choosing again and again to love like Jesus and live as Jesus.
Choosing life over death requires discerning between true and false influences. Seeing the good or bad fruit they produce empowers us to choose the influence we want to follow.
In Christ, God has already chosen life for us all, but he lovingly lets us choose when and how much we experience the new life he gives. Why would we miss out by going down the wide road when the road less traveled leads to more and better life both now and later?
Because the way of life is a person, discipleship to Jesus is an experience of loving and being loved. We come alive in God’s kingdom when we choose to practice God’s love, not by our devotion to theories and ideas about God. Our choice to practice love or not determines whether we’re moving closer to or further from the invitation of Jesus to become human again.
We anticipate with great hope the day that God’s justice fully arrives and forever changes the world. Trusting God to be the judge frees us to live in love. By learning a life of love now, we’ll be prepared for a future when only love will remain.
No judgment doesn't mean no feedback or input, but it does mean we don’t see ourselves as superior to others. Instead, we live in mutual relationship with them, humbly giving and receiving feedback. It’s in the absence of judgment that we are free to help each other grow and flourish in love.
Fake news about God, ourselves, others and reality lies at the root of all that is wrong in the world. When we act on these lies, destruction always follows. But when we see and act on the truth about God and ourselves, we will also see the truth about others and reality. The truth frees us to live fully in love.
We are constantly tempted to place ourselves in the center of everything, creating a false orbit that traps us in perpetual judgment. But when we recenter our lives in God and receive his love as the grounding force that provides everything we need, we’re empowered to love people instead of judging them.
The culture teaches us to respond to judgment with judgment in a never-ending cycle, fueling more and more anger and hate. Jesus invites us to the slow burn of love that’s kindled by a commitment to remain in love in the midst of judgment.
There’s no need to work harder or climb higher to get more love, because we have all the love we can live in right now. We are learning to live in that love, so we practice love to become more loving.
God’s love is directed to us, dwelling in us, and flowing through us—back to God, to ourselves, to others, and to all creation. As the much-loved children of God, we become an unstoppable source of God’s love that changes our world.
Everything depends on disciples who learn from Jesus how to love like Jesus and live as Jesus. Such disciples resist a culture of division and judgment since we cannot love and judge others at the same time.
From the cradle to the cross, our faith is grounded in the scandalous story of a God who dives into our mess to love us at any cost. To live in such shocking love is to give it to others, as well.
Life is hard. But when we practice surrendering to the love of God in all situations, we can learn the worry-free life Jesus invites us into.
God meets us in the good, bad, and ugly of our real lives, and he cares more about all of it than we do. Because God is always with us and at work, we can let go of worry and surrender to his loving care.
When we live in the fear of not having enough, we become enslaved by greed and injustice, convinced we have to take care of ourselves. But when we believe Jesus and trust that God always has enough to graciously care for us, we are set free to love and serve others with generous hearts.
Life in the love of God lasts forever. When I choose to treasure his presence in this life, I’m already learning to enjoy him in the next one. Love is the one treasure that cannot be destroyed and that I will never lose.
If we see what our eyes are trained to see, it matters who I trust to train me. The life I get will be shaped by the trainer I choose.
Greed is deceptive and so subtle we may not even know we have fallen into it. Surrendering to the law of love offers us a way to escape the trap of greed.
We see what our eyes are trained to see. Learning how to see aright leads to inner transformation from darkness to light.
I can live for the approval of others or from the love of God that’s already mine. The first is exhausting because it never ends, and the other is transforming because it never stops. The reward is what happens in me, not what people see. But the treasure I want is the treasure I get.
When prayer is unanswered, we can’t assume it was because God said “no.” We trust that prayer accomplishes much, whether we can see it or not. When a prayer that aligns with God’s will doesn’t bring about God’s will, or when anything happens contrary to God’s will, we only know that our prayers make some kind of impact, moving the world toward God’s ultimate dream.
In a broken world, temptation is a normal part of our lives. But because God is always present and at work, we don’t have to face those temptations alone. Our response to temptation is an opportunity to become more or less like Jesus, and we get to choose what we want more.
The self-sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus declare that the sin of the whole world is abolished and forgiven. We experience that forgiveness when we acknowledge that we need it and trust that we have it. But if we refuse to release those who’ve wronged us, our capacity to enjoy our own forgiveness is diminished.
Our culture of abundance may lead us to believe that we can take care of ourselves. However, when we recognize that our Father is the giver of the daily good in our lives, we learn to live out of gratitude for those gifts. Then our prayers of petition can move beyond me to we and we can partner with our Father to become the answer to some of those prayers.
Hallowing God’s name is less about the words we do or don’t say and more about living out our Father’s love. When we bear his name by loving (everyone at all times) in all we do, his kingdom comes and his will is done on earth as it is in heaven.
Prayer is how we participate in the life and activity of God who is always present and at work in and around us. We are changed as we surrender to God in prayer. But prayer is also how God shares God’s power with us to change what happens in our world. God acts in response to our prayers because God delights to involve us in the work.
The beauty of our life with God will never outrun the beauty of our vision of God. But as we behold God’s beautiful love revealed in Jesus, we become more like who we see.
In a world full of noise, stimulation and indulgence, spiritual practices help us grow in awareness of God and alignment with reality. They free us FROM the enemy’s hold and free us FOR real life.
If we practice for recognition, we already have our reward. But when we practice to form Jesus-like character, that reward is both now and forever. Our motive matters because we always reap what we sow.
Spiritual practices are not just the homework of the Christian life. They free the Spirit’s transforming power to flow through us and into the world.
We live in the story that best helps us make sense of the world. When we choose to inhabit the story of God’s people that’s been unfolding for thousands of years, we get to live as the much-loved children of God. Our spiritual practices help us become the person the story tells us we are.
Jesus doesn’t expect us to be perfect people. Jesus is calling us to become the kind of people who are capable of living in perfect unity with one another.
The more we get our life from Christ, the more we can understand broken people just trying to get their core needs met in false ways. By the power of the Spirit, we can view others, even our enemies, the way Christ did, with compassion and hope for restoration rather than with judgment.
We tend to justify doing anything to our enemies except love, which only harms them and us. But loving our enemies is not just for them; it’s for us. Nothing transforms me more than loving people I don’t like or who don’t like me.
We want to retaliate against and resist those who interfere with our desires because we assume that violence solves problems. Jesus’s call to self-sacrificial love must override and restrain our instinct for retaliation. Since love means “to will the good of another,” we can’t perpetrate violence against someone and love them at the same time.
Our first instinct is to respond to evil done to us with the same evil done to them. Jesus invites us to imagine a new way of being human that doesn’t plot revenge but reflects God’s generous love instead. Love creates ways to challenge evil without engaging in evil.
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We all pass on something we love to someone we love. Nothing is more important for us to give to the next generation than an understanding of who God is and how God loves. Since the love of God holds everyone and everything together, to leave this task undone is to fail at what matters most.
Excessive and unnecessary words invite mistrust and create loopholes to get out of our commitments. Speaking the simple truth frees us to live in love and build trust with those around us.For links and more info, visit:https://www.meadowheights.com/hub
The goal of marriage is not to avoid divorce but to learn to love in a way that reflects the love of God. A healthy marriage takes steps to keep moving in that direction. Although the ideal is to be with one person for life, in a broken world the ideal sometimes gets broken, too. It’s only by God’s grace that any of us get married, whether for the first, second or third time.
Our culture has sold us a myth that marriage is the fairy tale ending to our search for romantic love, but Jesus shows us what true love really means. When we remember that we are brothers and sisters in the family of God first, every relationship in our lives is an opportunity to learn what it means to love each other like Jesus loves us.
We all assume that as long as lust stays in our heads it’s not hurting us, God or anyone else. But we cannot imagine someone as a much-loved child of God and a sexual object at the same time. Jesus compels us to live by love in our imaginations as well as our bodies.
Because Jesus’s death and resurrection include everyone, we can choose to see anyone with eyes of hope and not judgment, starting with the person in the mirror. Although we still often live out lies about who we really are, that false self is dead and our true self is now free to live in the newness of life.
Confession is a lifestyle of truth-telling about ourselves. It’s about becoming aware of our whole selves so that we can live as we are, in both our weaknesses and strengths. When we practice this together as a community, we experience healing and the freedom of honest relationships with each other. What a gift!
Reconciliation seems unrealistic and sometimes impossible but must be radically pursued. Our humility with God and openness to his Spirit will result in mutual submission to each other. Then we will enjoy life in the freedom of God’s love and offer others the same.
Reconciliation seems unrealistic and sometimes impossible but must be radically pursued. Our humility with God and openness to his Spirit will result in mutual submission to each other. Then we will enjoy life in the freedom of God’s love and offer others the same.
Cultivating anger, whether acted upon in violence toward others or only imagined in our minds, is playing with fire and ends in destruction. God’s better way of being human transforms us from the inside out by starting with our heart, not our behavior.
Cultivating anger, whether acted upon in violence toward others or only imagined in our minds, is playing with fire and ends in destruction. God’s better way of being human transforms us from the inside out by starting with our heart, not our behavior.
The whole scripture story tells the most glorious good news the world has ever heard. If we associate the Bible with bad news, scary news or shaming news, we must learn to read it the way God inspired it to be read. What appears to be inconsistent with the character of God is there to reveal the love of God. Even what looks like bad news is good news in disguise!
The Bible is not just a text to study or a checkbox on our “good Christian” to-do list. It is a way to hear from God and allow his spirit to work in our hearts and minds. Reading the Bible through the lens of Jesus helps us find our place in the story again and again.
Jesus redefined reality by claiming to be the center of the scripture story. As we surrender to the love of Jesus, we enter this new reality and our lives are transformed.
Jesus both loves us and shows us what love looks like. The most basic task of being human is to receive his love, live in his love, and imitate his love. Anything else is worthless unless we do everything in love.
When we embody the way of Jesus and live as salt & light in our everyday lives, God’s kingdom breaks through in real time that which is bland and tasteless gains fullness and flavor; where there is darkness, light begins to shine.
God’s people are ordinary people who bless others by ordinary means. Simply living in the way of Jesus, we shine hope in the darkness and people are drawn toward the goodness of God.
Light shines; it doesn’t try to shine. And when transformed people just live and love like Jesus, we illuminate what a Good God is doing in an often dark and chaotic world.
As we embrace the way of Jesus’s kingdom, the Spirit will work through us to be the salt of the earth. In a world bitter with hate, sickness, and strife, we will be flavor-givers, seasoning things up, making life around us more tasty as we love and live in the way of Jesus.
Christmas is a never-ending story. When we surrender to God’s love, we embody Christ’s Spirit like Mary embodied Jesus the first Christmas. Emmanuel is “God with us,” but the Spirit is “God in us.” Wherever we are, there he is!
Christmas is the love story of a Father and Son saying goodbye to each other in the community of perfect love they inhabited. Then Jesus said hello to our world, bringing God’s love with him in human form so that love could overflow to everyone, everywhere, for all time.
Christmas is a justice story. Our Savior personally lived a life of poverty, exile, and oppression so that not only does he free people from injustice - he also understands them. The Christmas story invites us to join Jesus by coming alongside our impoverished and oppressed brothers and sisters.
Christmas is the story of a one-person invasion and conquest against a sinister enemy entrenched on an entire planet. Bethlehem is the beachhead for God’s campaign to regain the territory lost in the cosmic battle against evil. The birth of a baby is the unlikely beginning of the end of the Great War between the kingdom of love and the kingdom of darkness.
When we fail to notice the giver of goodness in our lives it will rob us of the good life of gratitude. But, when we remember that all good things are because of God we respond to him with thankfulness and the good life of gratitude will overflow into the lives of others.
When we live and love like Jesus, we refuse to make enemies of others or adopt an “us vs. them” mindset. When we opt out of the game of deciding who does and does not deserve love, we no longer fit on either side and will be persecuted as a result. But we rejoice to know that we are moving in the direction of God’s coming kingdom!
Our first instinct is to divide the world into people who are like us and those who aren’t and to protect those differences at any cost. Jesus invites us to live as sons and daughters of God, members of one human family who belong to each other. Together we search for common ground and work for the common good.
Chasing our ‘best life now’ by pursuing fortune, fame, fun, and fullness lures us down a path that leads away from God. When we resist the pull of those empty idols and move toward God’s kingdom instead, our best life is found - now AND forever.
Our world offers continual distractions that overwhelm us and keep us from purity of heart. But when we have a single-minded focus on God and his love, we will notice him at work in and around us.
In a culture of perpetual judgment, we humbly acknowledge the brokenness we have in common with everyone. We give to others the mercy we receive from God and find even more of the mercy we need. What a beautiful way to be human!
The trap of hungering and thirsting after idols leaves us empty and restless. The fullness of life is longing for and chasing after what we can only find in the love of Christ.
When we live as equals with every human as a much-loved child of God, we no longer compete for value. Being secure in God’s immeasurable love, no more and no less, makes us the owners of everything that can’t be bought.
The good life in God’s kingdom is ours when we feel like we’ve lost something we hold dear. When we mourn the mess that is, we allow God to comfort us with the beauty of what will be.
The really good life isn’t for the pretty and perfect who keep it all together. It’s when we’re broken and at the end of our rope that we have more room for God. We are blessed when we trust that the imperfect are already perfectly loved.
Life’s big questions deserve serious attention. It matters whom we trust to guide us when everything is on the line. The person, story and teachings of Jesus convince us that he is the unique expert we should follow as if our very lives depend on it. Because they do. Seriously.
Our human God finally and fully breaks the chains of sin and death and restores the original goodness we were created for. His resurrection brings to life our choice to join him and each other in the renewal of all things.
Because Jesus was fully human, he fully experienced the same temptations we do. We can learn from Jesus how to resist those temptations when we reject their lies by surrendering to the good news that we are God’s much-loved children.
In his divinity, Jesus reveals what God is like; but in his humanity, he reveals what humans can be like. We flourish as humans when we continually choose to follow Jesus as a fully growing human.
Our default imagination for loving like and living as Jesus is to power up and try harder. But our fully human God shows us how to depend on the same power he did to live a fully human life, the presence of God’s Spirit with us.
When we imagine Jesus as superhuman, we may assume it’s unfair or unrealistic to follow him. But when we embrace Jesus as fully human, we are compelled to learn from him how to love like him and live as him.
The fast pace of our lives cuts off our connection to God, each other, and our own souls. Because we are programmed, prompted and pressured to do more and desire more and produce more, Jesus invites us to move away from hurry and into sabbath.
Hurry sickness clutters our schedules, our homes, and our hearts. But when we trust our good and generous God to richly provide for our needs, we stop hustling to accumulate more in our own power. Jesus invites us to move away from hurry and into simplicity.
Jesus invites us to move away from hurry and into solitude where we can be more present with God and ourselves. Solitude is a unique place to remember who we are in Jesus and open ourselves to the transformational work he is doing in us.
Hurry sickness is always striving but never arriving. The fast pace of our lives cuts off our connection to God, each other, and our own souls. Jesus invites us to move away from hurry and into stillness.
We can be deceived and distracted by the evil at work in our world. But when I remember that evil is ultimately defeated, I reclaim the confidence I need to win my battles today. I am strong when I allow God’s power to fight for me and through me.
I am gifted for you and you are gifted for me. Apart, our gifts lie dormant and useless. Together, our gifts make God’s Big Dream for the world come true!
Because of Jesus we are forever new and continually becoming new. Becoming new isn’t about trying harder or sinning less, it’s about being with Jesus and allowing him to do the transformational work in us. We are all a work in progress.
The cross destroyed the barriers that separate us from God and one another so we can take our place in God’s family. As God’s children, we are empowered to leverage our personal identities for the good of the world.
God gives us our identity. We do not earn it. It is a gift that no one can take away from us. We are God’s masterpiece!
On the first Easter, nobody expected no body. But that discovery was the unexpected beginning of everything! Unexpected endings are often unexpected beginnings in disguise.
Experiencing God’s love FOR me inspires me to invite others to experience it WITH me. There are no good excuses for not sharing good news.
I want to pray so God will change things, but God wants me to pray so he can change me. Things change when I change.
We anticipate the return of Jesus by helping him reclaim his original dream, not by waiting for him to rescue us in a heavenly escape plan. We long for a new beginning for the world, not the end of the world.
The gospel isn’t a carrot on a stick, a promise of a future heaven designed to manipulate us into behaving better. The gospel isn’t good advice to apply to your life. It’s GOOD NEWS about the freedom and flourishing that Jesus is enacting, and it’s happening NOW, in your hearing. Will you trust Jesus today? Will you say yes to the good news?
Revelation unveils a vision of our future where we will live and reign with God in loving communion forever. We are invited to live TODAY in excited preparation for that TOMORROW.
In the battle between truth and deception, we embrace a final victory of love on a cross, not cosmic bloodshed by a violent God. Willing to appear weak and foolish, we overcome the way he overcomes.
Revelation reveals a message of encouragement and freedom to first-century churches not one of disapproval and fear to future churches. Because we are the church, like them we get to live in freedom and not fear.
Since God looks exactly like Jesus, his character is revealed by a slain lamb and not by a roaring lion. Rather than put our trust in the power of this world, we follow the Lamb in self-sacrificial love.
To have emotionally healthy relationships, eliminate “dirty fighting” tactics and fight cleanly for the sake of the relationship.
To have emotionally healthy relationships, understand and own your thoughts and feelings so you can bring your true self.
To have emotionally healthy relationships, listen with empathy to the words and nonverbal communication of others.
To have emotionally healthy relationships, honestly examine your emotions and motivations so that you know yourself and can love people and God better.
To have emotionally healthy relationships, stop mind-reading and clarify expectations by talking to people in person instead of in your head.
I don’t receive from Jesus a private invitation to eternal life after death. Rather, Jesus offers me life in his kingdom, more and better life than I ever imagined, to be shared with him and with others both now and forever.
As God’s much-loved children, we have full access to all the blessings of life in his kingdom. Because everything that’s his is now ours, we get to join him in extending those blessings to others where we live, work, learn, and play.
Because we have already died with Christ and been made alive in him forever, we are free from the frantic fear of death. We can live each moment in peace and purpose while still pursuing a meaningful destiny.
Our God raises the dead to life. In this new life we’ve been given, we don’t have to chase meritocracy or settle for mediocrity. Instead, we are invited to embrace our new life as a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, created for a unique purpose in God’s kingdom of love.
Because the good news sets me free from doing more, getting more and being more, I get to speak good news to others. Not just a blanket good news to everyone but a specific and personal good news to someone.
Jesus doesn’t walk a tightrope between grace and truth, he fully embodies both. This is real love and Jesus invites us to live in and through this love. As we embody both grace and truth in our relationships they will grow deeper and stronger than they ever could from trying to walk a tightrope between nice and tough.
You are free from the tyranny of getting more, doing more and being more. You are free to receive what God has already given you in Christ. You can freely love others because you have all the love you were looking for.
God’s LOVE is the catalyst for transformation in ourselves and in our world, so we are free to stop our striving and SURRENDER to his love. As we become AWARE of this good news and ALIGN our hearts and minds with its truth, we’re invited to respond with faithful ACTION.
Following Jesus doesn’t bind you to a list of rules, walls, and borders. Following Jesus can free you to engage in a relationship with him that transforms all of you through his love. You get to choose what you want more.
Because heaven is crashing into earth, we are invited to wake up to God’s presence in our everyday, ordinary lives. Seeing what God is doing is our first step to doing it, too. God always meets us in the PRESENT moment.
Do you reach out and show hospitality to only your friends and those who you are comfortable around? Or, do you reach out to the excluded and the marginalized? In order to take The Great Commandment seriously, we must love those who God has placed around us. It’s not always going to be pretty, but it is going to be significant.
Do we live at a pace that allows us to be available to those who live around us? What would it take to change the pace of our lives in order to be more available? In order to take The Great Commandment seriously, we must create space in our lives to build relationships with those who live near us.
When we try to love everyone, we often end up loving no one. Perhaps we need to take the Great Commandment literally. We can only do a few things really well—let’s make sure that one of them is the thing that Jesus said matters most: The Great Commandment.
Am I using my gifts, talents and resources to serve the poor in such a way that they are invited to serve, too?
Do I only have relationships with people who are like me? If so, how might my relationships better reflect the coming kingdom of heaven?
Do we sometimes help the poor to help ourselves? Might we be hurting them instead? What if the answer is for all of us to be “poor in spirit?”
To deepen and strengthen my relationships, I need to practice the art of risking awkwardness.
To deepen and strengthen my relationships, I need to practice the art of acting intentionally.
To deepen and strengthen my relationships, I need to practice the art of being all there.
When we read certain stories in the Old Testament, it’s hard not to wonder… Is God violent or peaceful?
When we read certain stories in the Old Testament, it’s hard not to wonder… Is God angry or loving?
When we read certain stories in the Old Testament, it’s hard not to wonder… Is God sexist or empowering?
When we read certain stories in the Old Testament, it’s hard not to wonder… Is God legalistic or gracious?
Jesus restores us to a relationship with God where all sin has been washed “whiter than snow.”
Jesus is our source of guidance, strength, comfort and hope in the face of a blue Christmas of stress, sadness, grief, loss and loneliness.
When we admit we are powerless to fulfill our longings on our own, we’ll discover there’s help and that help has a name,Jesus. “I can’t do this on my own.”
Our attempts to find love, purpose and meaning on our own lead to an endless cycle of longing and regret. But if we decide to return to God, we’ll find we can always start over. “I wish I could start over.”
The longing to be loved, to find purpose for our days, to find meaning in our pain is given to us by God and intended to lead us back to him. “There has to be more.”