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See, A New Thing

a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland

WHY REAL LOVE IS MESSY

February 14, 2022

Love is messy. 

Less hallmark vignettes than gritty hours. 

More being held through the kind of tired that sleep can’t cure than moonlit strolls. 

Love is staying while tiny fists pound the floor. Love is grace when thoughtless mouths hurl arrows. Love is freedom with boundaries.

Hard words and tender mercy. 

Love is trading fairy tales for wise hope. 

It is is knowing the cobwebs of a heart and it is being seen without shame. 

Love has scars. It is not blind. 

Love is absorbing the cost of someone else’s debts and paying them down one choice at a time. It is seeking justice without vengeance. Love is not broken fences; it is not always an open door. 

Love is suffering the darkness and allowing people their own journey to the light. 

Love is suffering the darkness and allowing people their own journey to the light. 

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Love is holding on and love is letting go. 

Love is being carried when we cannot walk.

Love is finding life at the end of ourselves.

Love is being welcomed in our brokenness. 

Love is a spotless lamb choosing speckled sheep. 

Love is a person.

Love has a name.

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18 SUMMERS

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This "you only get 18 summers" thing is driving me This "you only get 18 summers" thing is driving me nuts.

True.
Terrifying.
Crushing.

I see it everywhere and I don't need the reminder. I'm so aware of her fleeting it all is. 

Which is why I'm so grateful that guy gets all the summers I don't and all the ones I get wrong.

New post at https://seeanewthing.com/18-summers/

#18summerswithyourkids #parentingencouragement
Friday: the day the sky turns black. It's strang Friday: the day the sky turns black. 

It's strange that we call it good, because it doesn't feel that way standing by the tomb. It doesn't seem good when the ground splits, or darkness swallows us whole.
 
But Friday acknowledges our loss of innocence and love and hope. It recognizes the kind of crushing grief that makes breathing unbearable. 

I think of it when I’m struggling with the diagnosis.
When he’s on the floor, unable to move.
I remember it when the news leaves me gutted.
When her world comes undone. 
And when the thing that happens to other people was done to me. 

Friday takes that seriously.

It doesn’t pretend or bypass. Friday looks all of our death in the face. And on Friday, the darkness that was meant to kill became the soil for new life. The goodness of this day speaks to our worst ones. 

Darkness is real and deep. And because Jesus entered it first, our darkness is coming undone. 

This ending is not the end.

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#goodfridayhope #goodfriday23 #jesusknows #griefhopelove
I went to sleep last night with unfolded laundry s I went to sleep last night with unfolded laundry spread over my bed - remnants of a “to-do” list I didn’t finish. Tasks that will inevitably get repeated over and over.

Sound familiar?

It made me think about how much of life is like that, and how much we crave significance, even in the middle of the mundane. 

This week on the blog - a post about finding glory in futility, or why everything matters, even if it feels like nothing does.

Link in bio: https://seeanewthing.com/finding-glory-in-futility/

#glory #futility #everymomentmatters #meaningfulmotherhood
God literally calls us to love him with our heart, God literally calls us to love him with our heart, soul, mind, and muchness.

Sometimes muchness is strength, and sometimes it's pain and doubt and impatience and worry.

Whatever you're carrying, your muchness is not too much.

New post on the blog. Link in profile: https://seeanewthing.com/loving-god-with-our-muchness-when-its-all-too-much/

#muchness #heartsoulmindstrength #lovethelordyourgod
Slow nights. Slow nights.
Hope for when life is hard and faith feels frail. Hope for when life is hard and faith feels frail. ☝️

New post on the blog today. Link in profile.

#hopewhenithurts #halloffaith #faithfulnessofgod
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