The Broken Way (with Bonus Content) by Ann Voskamp

Author:Ann Voskamp [Voskamp, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2016-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

What is real? Real living, real believing, real faith? Real living doesn’t always feel like living; it can feel like you’re dying. It can feel like you are breaking apart and losing pieces of yourself—and you are. Because when you let yourself love, you let parts of you die. Or you aren’t really loving. You must let your false self be broken, parts of you that you only thought were necessary. You must embrace your union with Christ, bravely surrender and trust that what’s breaking and being lost is never the eternal, needed parts of you, but always the temporal, needless parts that were getting in the way of you becoming real.

Tracing those two intersecting penned lines on my wrist, it’s like everything’s being worn down to the essence of real: the cross.

“My velveteen mama.” I touch her cheek. “The miracle of real happens when you let all your suffering create love. When you let the pain make passion. The passion makes you real, Mama.” I’m talking to her, but I’m the aching, busted one preaching gospel to myself, trying to find the way myself. I’m reading her eyes. Holding her wrinkled cheek in my hand. “I want you to be okay.”

Mama nods—closing her eyes a bit like a dam to hold it all back. “Want you to be okay too, girl.”

“But you know what, Mama?” I kneel down in front of her. Look up to her, her hand gently patting mine, her lips pursed trying to stop the tears. “You’re teaching me how to feel safe when I’m not okay, how to feel safe when I’m un-okay . . . how to feel how I’m beloved even when I’m broken.”

LET YOURSELF LOVE.

LET PARTS OF YOU DIE.

OR YOU AREN’T REALLY LOVING.

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