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This one really gets into your bones if you let it

Ooooooof. BEST CHAPTER BY FAR. Loneliness and the Location of God. Erin has been reading my mail. This hit so close to home. She offers a very insightful and challenging view of loneliness that ultimately paves a way for hope. I will need to reread this chapter a few times for it to really settle in, but SHEESH. this stuff is pivotal.

“Many of us wield our spiritual prescription pads in the hope that this diagnosis will bring comfort and help to the hurting masses” p.87

Talking about pastoral care for sadness during singleness

Chapter 2:

Oooooooof. She is so good at staring straight into the brokenness of our world and culture and naming it. I feel exposed and deeply saddened. I feel my need and desperation for something better. My need for a savior.

I love the professional and personal mix. She cites social science research and also says words like “wowzesr” 😂

Oof. I can already tell this is going to be transformational. I need to take a second and think about some of this already. It is gonna be good for advent too - a time of asking hard questions

One of my fav quotes so far:
“Underneath our questions about side-hugs, purity, abuse, family drama, singleness, and heartbreak I found something more abiding and fundamental to our humanity that informs all these things.”

So far, so very good

So close. We have come to the part in the story where i have no idea what is coming next. Will england forever be locked in this mix of protestant and catholic both upset at the queen? What will be the agent of change that settles this debacle? Will Queen Elizabeth ever marry and have a child or will the throne fall to catholic mary queen of scots yet again a swing in the religion of the monarchy?

This is gonna be good.

Already is

King Edward is about to die. Sad. Poor kid. And I have to go to London and this book is too big to take with me. A cliff hanger, who will take the throne. What is the fate of the reformation. Tbc in a few weeks.

Henry is finally dead. PtL. He killed so many people I was really getting quite sad. Not that it will get any better moving forward.

SPOILER ALERT: Cromwell got killed. Crazy. Really did not see that coming.

I feel like I have been on a roller coaster of reformation.

We have officially separated from the pope. Henry and anne are happily married (not for loonggggg :( ). Henry is happily killing anybody how disagrees with him which is quite ghastly. Cranmer is archbishop of Canterbury - still very interested in him and what he has planned.

Henry still be supporting the papacy, but i have a feeling we are getting close to that not being the case.

1/12th we getting there. One 30 minute chunk at a time. Quite intriguing thus far although not the quickest read for sure.

Katherine Parr

6 out of 6 for 8th
Wrote down the depths of her sin
Beautifully potent, a diagnosis
Providence saved her and many more
A piece of paper fallen
Revealed the treason
A witfull woman
Humiliated to save
Christ
She writes the story of the gospel
She prays with the grace of the Holy Spirit
Died when giving life