I sat this week with this devotion alongside the Gospels, trying “to avoid minimizing the trauma or sanitizing the horror.” A few points spoke deeply to my soul. Thank you for including all of them.
Jon Stotts: Do you see Christ dying in our world? Me: Lord, how can I not? Many Still Search for the One.
Barbara Brown Taylor: “Pain leads down to the ground floor where all the real things are: real love, real sorrow, real thanks, real fear.” Me: Grounded by the Real Love, I pray with real fear “use me, Lord.”
Ruth Burrows: “Divine wisdom…persuades us to surrender control and to abandon ourselves blindly to love.” Me: Help me overcome my fears and abandon myself to love.” <3 linda
