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This is one of my favorite quotes from Eugene Pete

This is one of my favorite quotes from Eugene Peterson. I think about this a lot in the context of anxiety. Anxiety can make us feel like exiles, because it isolates us and makes us feel crazy and unwell and fatigued. But just as exile is the worst experience that reveals what’s most important, anxiety can be the exile from the ordinary that helps us see what was always best: God himself. Anxiety has the power to turn our shoulders towards God and help us not turn our heads to the right or to the left. I pray this finds you with your shoulders square to the best thing, no matter where your exile has you in the moment.

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eBook sale!!! These are hard and very strange time

eBook sale!!! These are hard and very strange times, and I know that the first week in October was mental health awareness week. In light of that and how much I have written about my own anxiety disorder, I wanted to make these three e-books as cheap as I could for this week. I have put the price as low as I possibly can so that you can take it vantage of this. If you think you might benefit from reading one of these, the risk is pretty low 🙂 if you know of others who might benefit from reading them, pass the word along to them. These will only be at this price for one week.

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I stared at this landscape for a good minute, soak

I stared at this landscape for a good minute, soaking in the shades of gray and white in the clouds, and the clean blue of the sky, and this open pocket of water that sits here calling for people to gaze at it like an oil painting. It’s from Batsto Village in NJ. Beautiful place.

The shoreline is sandy and changes subtly as the wind moves over top of the water, as the evaporation lowers the water level and the rains bring it up again. The change isn’t so drastic as the ocean shoreline with the tides, but it still happens. It’s slow, gradual change. But when you look on it after some time has passed, the difference seems more significant.

I think that’s often the way God works on our souls. Pushing the sediment back and forth, blowing over us with winds of adversity and passion. We change one grain of sand at a time. But every grain is precious. Every grain counts. Every grain takes its rightful place in the landscape of our lives. God sees all of it, like this moment, and stores it in his eternal memory.

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No one wants weakness, just as no one wants anxiet

No one wants weakness, just as no one wants anxiety. But God tells us flat out that his power is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9). Weakness isn’t a plague to be avoided; it’s a path to be walked. And if we walk it with faith in his Christ-conforming purposes, there’s always room for HIS power to be perfected. HIS. Not ours. We live much of life trying to perfect our own power in weakness, and we’re bound to fail. That’s good news, because if we fail in falsehood, we can succeed in the truth.

My anxious friends, put up the white flag tonight. Accept that God has a definitive, detailed plan for your anxiety and weakness. And the end result is his power. That’s what Struck Down but Not Destroyed is all about.

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I’d never watched the sun set on a beach before.

I’d never watched the sun set on a beach before. We visited Sunset Beach in Ocean City, NJ and got a chance to do that. With the wild winds and the kids full of passionate freedom, it was a memory worth holding. As the sun sank lower in the sky like a pink marble, people stood on the shore, just watching. That’s the miracle of God’s creation: it’s worth just watching. You don’t have to say anything. You can just stare. You can let yourself be captivated. Sometimes that’s the easiest way to be a child again, standing in the shallows, gazing at the waves that seem to appear on the horizon out of nowhere. Just happy to stare.

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My dad’s birthday would’ve been today. He died

My dad’s birthday would’ve been today. He died when I was 18, from a cancerous brain tumor. Whenever I think about him and what he’s doing now, I think about this. He’s listening. He’s speaking. And there’s a broad smile that can scarcely leave his face. He listens to his Heavenly Father in the deepening tones of eternal love. He listens to the Son sing of the sacrifice he was glad to make. He listens to the Spirit teach him about the unending beauty of who this God is, this one to whom he is forever joined, in worship and peace and passion. And he speaks in awe and wonder from the depths of who he was made to be. Our eternity will be engulfed in divine speech. And we’ll have words too.

On this side of paradise, loss is hard and heavy. We respond in soul-flinching anguish. I probably even developed my anxiety disorder as a result of not being able to deal with my dad’s death.

But good things come to those who wait. My dad loved saying that. Sometimes the hardest part of loss and suffering is the waiting. But when our holy conversation with the Trinity at last begins, the waiting will seem trivial. I firmly believe that.

Long live the God of speech.

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I have so many people in mind today, when we step

I have so many people in mind today, when we step back for just a minute and think about mental health. Thank you to so many who have been encouraging to me in my battle with an anxiety disorder. I hope I have been some encouragement to you. Over the years I’ve seen just how much mental health affects physical and spiritual health. It’s staggering. I look back on my life now and see all these moments when anxiety was shaping my thoughts and actions, and I had no idea. I thought it was “normal.” And so I was ignorant of what I was facing for years. Praise God that, through medication, counseling, and supportive family (especially my wife @christinamariablog ), I’ve been able to grow and learn so much about myself and about God through anxiety. The #struckdownbook is a chronicle of that continuing journey. I’m thankful to serve a God who sees me, who never fails to use EVERYTHING, even an anxiety disorder, to conform me to his Son by the power of his Spirit.

To all my brothers and sisters out there battling anxiety and other forms of mental illness, I pray you draw nearer to God through your trials. God will do more through your mental illness than you can even imagine. Sleep on that tonight.

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When things are going well for us, we feel like gr

When things are going well for us, we feel like granite: solid, strong, impervious to the elements of physical and spiritual misfortune. It can become an expectation after a while. We EXPECT things to go well for us. And when they don’t, something is wrong. Something isn’t fair. We shouldn’t have to deal with cancer or anxiety or loneliness.

The truth is that all of life hinges on interpretation. If hardship is interpreted as unjust suffering to be avoided or excised from our lives, then we probably won’t learn from it. If we keep imagining that granite is our natural state, then it’s hard to profit from hardship.

But if we embrace the fact that we’re clay, waiting to be shaped into the contours of God’s Son, everything changes. Our interpretation has changed. Rather than asking, “How can I get rid of this?” We can ask “Lord, how do you want me to be shaped through this?” God always answers in one way or another.

Accepting that you’re clay isn’t a bad thing. It brings you one step closer to being who you’re destined to be.

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These are the precious moments that drift by almos

These are the precious moments that drift by almost unnoticed. It’s just a book on a couch, spread between the knees of two little girls. And yet here they are, connecting in wonder and enjoyment of something we ignore most of the time. This is why I have been so enjoying @sally.clarkson ‘s recent book, Awaking Wonder. These tiny moments of wonder each day are momentous in God’s eyes. They are moments when we get lost in the colors and textures and memories of a vibrant, God-reflecting world. And my wife and I would miss these moments if we were not homeschooling our kids this year, for the first time. I’m excited to watch all of our kids use and strengthen their wonder muscles, to use one of Sally’s phrases. This is the stuff of life.

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It’s such a simple thought, really, though I wro

It’s such a simple thought, really, though I wrote a whole book about it and feel as if I barely started getting into this mystery when the book was already over. Words exist to draw us into communion with the God who speaks and with each other. Words come from the very hearth of communion: God himself. So we shouldn’t be surprised by their restorative power, their ability to bear grace, their constant surprises, their beauty. Here are some for you tonight. Eat them slowly. Enjoy the letters. “God sent his Son for you.”

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Caught this little guy in front of our house on th

Caught this little guy in front of our house on the bushes. A creature whose posture reflects 1 Thess. 5:17, always praying. When I saw him, he was still as steel, just waiting, the way we usually do in prayer.

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I love Ephesians 4:29. Such a call to love through

I love Ephesians 4:29. Such a call to love through language. The idea that words can actually carry GRACE (the unmerited gifts of God) is nothing short of amazing. I mean, we shouldn’t be so surprised, since the greatest act of grace we could ever receive is from the Word (John 1:1). But still, it really is jaw-dropping when you think about it.

The question is, do we USE words this way? When was the last time you can remember sending a grace-infused word to another? My aim tomorrow is to show at least one person grace through words, to bless someone with something I say as a gift unexpected. Are you in? 🙂

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