"Brokenness can be the beginning of growth."

At A Holy Experience Ann Voskamp writes about her daughter learning to

break open the earth, so that seeds can be buried deep and break in the darkest places where they seem abandoned — and then resurrect to abundant life. Brokenness can be the beginning of growth.

The only way for anything to grow— is for something to break. Growth only happens when the status quo is broken.

...When you are most loving — suffering will most likely result.

...And the beauty of Christianity is that what dies — will rise.
When you are called to a Cross — God is always calling us to our greatest good.

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Who is not broken in some way?

Ann Voskamp writes,

The Body of Christ may have a thousand different opinions, a thousand fractions and divisions, and circles. But there’s not one of us that isn’t broken in some way.

And acknowledging our own brokenness is what makes high walls between people crumble.

Because it turns out — that when you know you are broken – it’s always your pointing finger that is broken.

You can’t point at anyone else anymore as the only sinner.

Brokenness breaks us from our need to be “right” and breaks us open to our need to extend the grace we have been given.

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