Category: Heart Work
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Close the Gap
When you abandon your clean, tidy, secure life to step into the brokenness of someone else you are making that gap between how things are and how things should be just a tiny bit smaller. Everything we do to serve, to make things better, to help someone through the hard things of life… is one…
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The Scars Remind Me
I was reminded again in a podcast recently of this beautiful description of the gospel work of fostering. This person was asked why they volunteered for such a painful thing. The answer, “I chose to experience a great pain so that this child could experience a great love.”
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Excruciating Love
Jesus stepped down into our mess and took our guilt and agony upon Himself so that I could have a better life… forever. We tried to do the same for two little lives that I still expect to see every time I look out the window at the swings shaken only by the breeze.
Fostering Grace 