Posts Tagged ‘brokenness|quest-magazine-2016-03’

Adorning almost every Protestant church is a cross—inside, outside, over the altar, in the vestibule, in the minister’s office, and sometimes many stories high on top of the building.

What must it have been like for folks living through World War I, 1914–1918? The horror of that war is still something I struggle to understand.

In the January 2015 “Transformation” edition of Quest, I had a sermon titled “Transformation vs. Acceptance.” In that sermon I gave passing mention to Jane Rzepka for the concepts I was writing about.

We often feel so alone and isolated in our very human feelings of brokenness.

When Midori Goto was three years old her grandmother gave her a 1/16 violin for her birthday. Her mother and grandmother sensed that music was one of her gifts, and they were right.

According to some folks, everything wrong in this world is because of one disobedient woman who listened to a snake. She just had to eat that apple, and then everything that was whole became broken. We were all doomed.

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There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable.