Religion & Spirituality
"Well-meant intentions are not always beneficial, or even harmless." -Bec McNew "Something often unspoken in our goody-goody world resides, and that is our lust for the sweetness of the approval that comes sandwiched between good-deeds and humble-brags." -Bec McNew"It’s difficult to be intimate with Jesus, prophetically described in Isaiah as the 'Man of Sorrows, acquainted with grief,' while doing everything in our power to distance ourselves from suffering." -Bec McNew"We can delight in God’s wonders and with-us-ness, possessing appreciative awe and trust in his ways, the person of love that he is, and the good of those who love him in accordance with his purposes while also feeling hurt, disappointment, regret, sorrow, and loss- while bearing witness to the same in another." -Bec McNew“It’s quite something…I am a person who wants to love by fixing things. I want to love people by doing practical things to make things better for them. And what I have learned with her, what she’s taught me, is there’s also a love called love only to witness. Only to witness. To bear faithful witness to what someone is going through with no possibility really of fixing very much. And that is a hard love. That is a very difficult love.” -Barbara Brown Taylor, via Kate Bowler's podcast Everything Happens“Christian tragedy looks outward, upward, and beyond for redemption.” -Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading WellScripture references: 1 Thesselonians 5:16, Psalm 67:4, Proverbs 15:13, Matthew 5:4, Psalm 119:50, Isaiah 49:13, Psalm 147:3, 2 Corinthians 1:4, Romans 12:15, Romans 8:35-39