Overcoming despair

Ann Voskamp writes today about overcoming despair, trusting God, and the broken reaching out to the broken.

Why does a mind find despair so much easier to hold on to than hope?

It’s either take captive every thought or be taken captive. When you realize life is war, you make prayer a shield and Christ your general and the victory is found in grace.

God doesn’t allow pain unless He’s allowing something new to be born. And there are a thousand ways births can happen unseen to the naked eye but it’s the eyes of the heart that see the delivering mercies of God. Every breath is always one breath closer to birthing into eternity.

In the Body of Christ, a mind can break just like a leg and if we don’t hide the shattering of our bones, why be ashamed of the shattering of our hearts?

And if the broken would just love the broken — we’d all be closer to whole.