Good morning…
This morning, I curl up in the corner of our couch, nestled beneath a bushy blanket, to read the first words of the book she gave me last night.
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Sometimes in the stillness you can hear it, the sound of a million quiet-beating hearts. We’re all looking for it, searching desperately for the secret to abundance. Will this bring what I’m seeking? You can almost hear the asking echoing in every brave beat.
There’s an answer we’ve got to find, if we’re ever to find what we’re seeking: How in all this world do you live with your one broken heart?
We’ve got to know the answer before we can hope to find what we’re seeking. Because this world is beautiful – but this world is broken. And the suffering is all around us . . . and in us.
And yet, for those who believe, this can be the very birthplace of healing beauty.
Though your heart is broken, this is where light will get in, where love will get in. And though you may know great suffering, that’s right where the greatest love can embrace you.
Knowing this, living this, could change everything. (Ann Voskamp’s Be the Gift: Let Your Brokenness Be Turned Into Abundance, 1-2)
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Intuitively truth resonates: the secret of abundance is letting our LORD’s light and love gradually heal whole our one broken heart.
In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret [of facing life], whether well-fed or going hungry, whether having an abundance or being in need. I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace] Philippians 4:12b-13, AMP).
…Sue…
