a full life in the emptiest places
"If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down--and-out, Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight.
I will always show you where to go. I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places--firm muscles, strong bones. You'll be like a well-watered garden,a gurgling spring that never runs dry.
You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again."
God speaks through Isaiah (58)
to the people who follow "the Name."
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Confession: I love the empty places. There is a sense of starting over, the slate is clean, I can build it better than it was before. Creativity is left with room to grow. And all of it through God's strength.
Restoration begins at the bottom of the pit, the place in which the only room to go is up into the grace of God.
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