As we step gingerly into the year 2023, we can't help but acknowledge that we've all been more than a little beat up over the past few years. All that we've experienced globally and nationally has had a very real personal impact on every single one of us. And that truth has implications. Our natural tendency when feeling beat up and wounded is to withdraw, to turn inward. I'd like to suggest that true healing is found in a different posture, and I'd like to invite you to join with me as I pursue an openness that I believe will make a difference in my life and in the lives of those around me. Let's do this together!

Read it for yourself at Bible Gateway Version 2 here.

Questions from today's episode: Is there a particular type of person or circumstance where I struggle most to feel compassion? Is God inviting me to trust Him in a new way as I consider this struggle? What is my response?

Quiet on Purpose music written and recorded by Caleb Lieurance