The canvas of the crucified Christ hangs up in the gable over the table. This vulnerable communion is a risk. Givenness is a risk. The only way to abundant life is the broken way of risk.
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The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into the Abundant Life | 
The canvas of the crucified Christ hangs up in the gable over the table. This vulnerable communion is a risk. Givenness is a risk. The only way to abundant life is the broken way of risk.
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book. 💔❤ I sobbed my way through this one. SO GOOD!!! For anyone who has been broken...which is all of us. This book!! (My 4th book read for 2019. 📷: Instagram)
Then the inevitable happens, what always happens: the heart breaks, rips right down the center, just where she tried to smooth everything out. I'd swallowed hard.... Shalom looks down at her [broken heart]. I am waiting for her to brim and overrun.
"It's all okay." She finds the right first words. She holds the torn bit of her paper heart out to me. "Maybe the love gets in easier right where the heart's broke open?"
The real Jesus turns our questions of why -- why this brokenness, why this darkness? -- and days, "You're asking the wrong question. You're looking for someone to blame. There is no such cause-effect here." "This happened so the power of God could be seen in him." There's brokenness that's not about blame. There's brokenness that makes a canvas for God's light. There's brokenness that makes windows straight into souls.
When you somehow pass your brokenness onto your own people, why does it hurt in a way physical pain never could?
pickIt's a good read. An eye opening,a life changer. < it's always the vulnerable heart that breaks broken hearts free>
I mean.... 💔😭❤ This book!!
Finally get to start on this book that has been on my TBR since I first read Ann's blog!! Loving it!! It's so exactly what my heart needs right now! 💔❤
so-soI love Ann‘s writing, but I had a hard time with this one.
My new current read since finishing Moby Dick!
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I've only read one chapter and I'm already in love! 😍 This book is so gorgeously written, and deals with hope amidst our pain and brokenness with such beautiful words.
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If I'm not careful, I'm going to go through an entire highlighter while reading this one! 😂🙈
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