Am I giving my life to bring hope and healing to the places where
I see brokenness?
He sees the brokenness of my life.
The heart of the Gospel story is the assertion that God
saw our brokenness and pain and sin and would not look away, instead sending His Son to die for us and heal the world.
As in faith Israel sees the broken human community (both God - man, Gen. 3, and man - man, Gen. 4) in the Genesis myths, so in faith Israel surely
sees the brokenness of her own community in Saul (God - man) and David (man - man) Of course, in Israel the king is never merely an individual.
«Helping people with domestic violence, you know suffering from domestic violence or immigrants who were being deported... I just
saw their brokenness.
I'm forever changed; where I once
saw brokenness and failure, I now can see my greatest power and my deepest strengths.
Not exact matches
A church that encourages us to be generous, to work for justice, to care for the poor, to forgive others, and
see God's love amid a world that still has lots of
brokenness and sin.
God
sees forward into eternity and wants to speak to how He's going to redeem the
brokenness in our day, week, month, or year as part of His plan for the world.
We often try to tackle trials alone, fearing our
brokenness being
seen.
Now that I have fallen in step with the man from Nazareth, I want to walk where he walked into the
brokenness of this life, and
see the Kingdom of God at hand.
It is to
see God's gift of the creation as not only a word about the earth «in the beginning,» but also the affirmation that God is present now through the spirit, overcoming
brokenness among people and their habitation.
It was in that
brokenness that we could
see the broken bread of Christ's body as well as the hope embodied in his resurrection.
I want to
see sin and
brokenness.
But in For the Time Being we
see Auden come down from the heights and embrace the world in all its
brokenness and finitude.
So in our
brokenness we journey on, knowing that «when he shall appear» — and only then — «we will be like him, and we will
see him as he is.»
The Ache reminds me of the great and terrible beauty I have
seen, of what love I have experienced, of the sorrow and
brokenness of loss, of all the love that is still here, of the wonder and miracle of life, of the sweetness of co-creation, of the labour and release, of transcendence.
What God does
see in those moments is our pain and our
brokenness, and He desires to reside with us in those dark, deep places.
You
see it in people who don't believe they are loved, or don't know they are loved, or have not embraced their
brokenness, their darkness — they're still living in the shadow self.
We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter
brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22;
see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).
He failed to
see fully the profound strivings and resources for growth that people can use to transcend or transform their
brokenness.
This is a question from Monika — «What would you say to someone who wants, really wants, to live following Jesus but has
seen so much evil and
brokenness in Christianity that they don't
see a way to make it work anymore?»
It took me an inappropriate amount of time (and an absurd number of yelling matches) to
see my wife's «leaky - tank - problem» was actually just a reflection of a much deeper
brokenness in me.
It took me a long time (and an absurd number of yelling matches) to
see my wife's «issues» were actually just a reflection of much deeper
brokenness in me.
I've
seen my fair share of
brokenness.
I realize, when I
see our failure to give a theologically thoughtful witness, that God's purposes are especially revealed in the events that uncover the church's
brokenness and unfaithfulness.
«Vedic thought holds that a true vision of a divine universe must necessarily include the
brokenness of the world, and that in fact it is precisely the imagination that is able to
see the way the whole fits together despite the often disjointed nature of the parts.»
As the father of four, he has a heart to
see single parents succeed in the journey as they lead their children through the
brokenness of divorce.
Rather than lay out the case for the
brokenness of the current virtual school model, I would encourage you to simply do a Google search for «virtual schools» and
see what results pull up in the News section — academic problems, high attrition rates, low retention rates, etc..
For we seldom choose to raise children alone... but as we look back over the years... we can
see how God has blessed us... through all our
brokenness and tears.
As the father of four, he has a heart to
see single parents succeed in the journey as they lead their children through the
brokenness of divorce.
At its earliest, we
see the influences of European art, as well as a post war sense of
brokenness.
As the father of four, he has a heart to
see single parents succeed in the journey as they lead their children through the
brokenness of divorce.
As the father of four, he has a heart to
see single parents succeed in the journey as they lead their children through the
brokenness of divorce.