Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do some get away with their crooked schemes without come consequence? I’m learning and re-learning that none of us can earn our way to a status of no problems. We haven’t arrived in a perfect world where everyone is perfect. We can allow God’s love to permeate us, fill our hearts, enabling His love to flow through us. Our predicaments and hurts can transform us, train v us to depend on His presence. We cannot fix what we cannot fix.
“Your true identity is as a child of God. This is the identity you have to accept. Once you have claimed it and settled in it, you can live in a world that gives you much joy as well as pain. You can receive the praise as well as the blame that comes to you as an opportunity for strengthening your basic identity, because the identity that makes you free is anchored beyond all human praise and blame. You belong to God, and it is as a child of God that you are sent into the world.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love
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