Dear Struggling Christian

“... Without your wound where would your power be? It is  your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade  the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service only the wounded soldiers can serve. Draw back.”

“Men, now-a-days, do not read their Bibles, and they have for the most part no religion. They have a religion, which is all outside show, but they do not think of searching to see what its meaning really is. Sirs, it is not the cloak of religion that will do for you, it is a vital godliness you need; it is not a religious Sunday, it is a religious Monday; it is not a pious church, it is a pious closet; it is not a sacred place to kneel in, it is a holy place to stand in all day long. There must be a change of heart, real, radical, vital, entire.”

Things that matter in life:

Forget about the grace for tomorrow.

I think of feelings like waves; powerful and all consuming, but unable to hold an anchor.