Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.
Shakespeare
We are all broken and if we’re not already, somewhere in the future we will be. There is so MUCH beauty and potential within each of us. Our brokenness is how it shines forth into the world.
Stop fearing the unknown and the pressures of this life. God, himself, has placed us in the fires to try us. Refine us. Yes, to break us so that the fears and weaknesses can leave us and that tiny grain of faith can grow. Yield to His hands that he may shape us.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith — the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:6-9
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