When what seems to be depression or compulsive eating or narcissism or despair or discouragement or resentment or isolation takes over, try picturing it as a vulnerable and desperate force seeking to defy God’s grace and mercy in your life.
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Nadia Bolz-Weber is an American theologian, New York Times bestselling author, and Lutheran minister. She served for ten years as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Colorado.
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Maybe demons are defined as anything other than God that tries to tell us who we are.
I need a place to confess that I don’t have everything figured out.
In the end, the only real love in the world is found when you let yourself be truly known.
Those most qualified to speak the gospel are those who truly know how unqualified they are to speak the gospel.
It has been my experience that what makes us the saints of God is not our ability to be saintly but rather God’s ability to work through sinners.
My former bishop Allan Bjorberg once said that the greatest spiritual practice isn’t yoga or praying the hours or living in intentional poverty, although these are all beautiful in their own way. The greatest spiritual practice is just showing up.
Our scars are part of our story, but they are not its conclusion. The past is ours and will always be a part of us, and yet it is not all there is. It’s a process, moving from wounds to scars to grief to showing those scars.
Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don’t even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.
Because sometimes the most holy thing we can say is: No. Not on my watch.
