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Broke beyond repair

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There are some dreams you pray with every fiber of your being never to come true. I had been thinking along this theme of beauty and brokenness for weeks. I couldn’t shake this feeling that I was only scratching the surface. I fell asleep one night asking God to take me further. We’re on a [...]

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When we long for death

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When I was 15 I wanted to die every single day. I had several volumes of mixed tapes which I recall being labeled ‘depression to the max’, filled with pukey-heartbreak songs and raging-industrial-metal constantly on replay. I’d contemplate between making a big splash of my death or just going away quietly. But I never had [...]

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Everything is broken

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I can’t recall where I was, but I had to take a photo of this art exhibit. It’s intriguing because it’s making art out of something broken. It demonstrates the truth that all of creation is broken. At the same time, it’s completely false in how everything is broken in the same places. Sometimes sweeping [...]

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Obviously Broken

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Along with beauty, brokenness isn’t spoken of much either. We’ll talk about it conceptually or in generalities, but the closer we get to specifics, the quicker we seem to want out of the conversation. People with physical disabilities have always struck a strange chord with me.  Their brokenness is so blatant and transparent for everyone [...]

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Our empires of dirt

To follow up on the previous post on Christian platforms and networks… I was just re-introduced to this song Hurt, by Johnny Cash.  I haven’t really listened to this song since I was an angst filled teenager when it was originally by the Nine Inch Nails.  I loved the song because I felt it described [...]

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Pain…

I know people in incredible pain right this moment.   What do you do besides being broken along side of them? How is it that we can talk so much within the church about how to love, without also sharing about how to grieve?   How is it that there can be such a fine [...]

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