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Monday, March 11, 2013

Jesus didn’t come to immunize me against pain or grief or heartache.

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This is what I wish I’d learned in church growing up. This is what I now know the faith-journey to be. And yet this flies in the face of the breed of Christianity I was raised in.

Faith was a balm. Salvation was a rescue plan. Jesus was a Savior from all things hard and uncomfortable and icky.

And then life happened.

And I discovered none of that was true.

Jesus didn’t come to immunize me against pain or grief or heartache.

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