Will you trust that in the experience of your change and loss, you are being prepared for a deeper love? ~Betty
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God’s Hideous Vulnerability
Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. Pietà. Metropolitan Museum of Art To grow, to be reborn, one must remain vulnerable–open to love but also hideously open to the possibility of more suffering. Anne Morrow Lindbergh If we are to come face to face […]
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Take This Cup From Me
Edgar Degas. Melancholy. The Philips Collection, Washington, DC Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done. True prayer is not so much about asking for things and desiring an outcome […]
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A Letter From Betty
Dear Ones, We are a family of the land. The endlessness of long leaf pines, of blackjack ridges and cypress ponds, of sand hills and palmettos. We are a family whose core and culture resonates and vibrates with the pain […]
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Caught Between the Nails
Francisco de Zurbarán. The Crucifixion. Art Institute of Chicago Oh, Good Jesus,hear me, hold me, love mein this, the season ofmy spirit’s loss and grieving,in the anguish of my waiting,in the silence of familiar voices gone,in the pain of […]
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March 1
Relax into your tears, allowing them to soften and empty your heart, bringing you into the tender intimacy of Christ’s suffering and the depths of the meaning of hope and shared humanity. ~Betty The Hidden Life Awakened
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February 1
Grieving our losses is part of God’s ongoing process of redemption, dispelling more of our darkness, bringing us bleeding into the Light. ~Betty The Hidden Life Awakened
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The Fire of Peter’s Transformation
After the horrific death of Jesus, Peter descends into the fiery pain of the destruction of everything he believed in and had given his life to. All was lost, and the reality of his utter cowardice under trial was crushing […]
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