Jesus enters the scene and starts talking about losing everything, and I hear him saying ‘quite openly’ that a broken world needs a story about breaking.
Like Jesus, you will walk into some days certain on some level that you’re as worthy of love and dignity as any other human being, and then, a moment later, become deeply unsure of this truth and look elsewhere for your identity.
Once we are reconciled to God, we become part of God’s ministry of reconciliation. The best way we can continually fill the hole in the heart of God and the holes in our own hearts is to reconcile with one another. Not just when it’s easy, but most especially when it’s hard, even when it seems impossible.
Heaven and earth are full of such invisible and illuminating glories. I believe that’s true, and I have trouble remembering that I believe that.