Avery Bain > Recent Status Updates

sheeesh i’m hype for this one🥊

“prayer is not a soft place to lay our heads or a workout routine for burning spiritual fat. It’s a wild, unpredictable adventure that only those brave enough to strip themselves of artificial identities, get the wind completely knocked out of them a time or two, and see the beauty in mystery will ever take”

i’ll finish this book if it’s the last thing I do🥵

“Hope springs from truth rehearsed”

eeeek I love this book bc it’s attacking pride :P

a good leader is a submissive follower! bye Uzziah

quote I liked: “true brokenness is a lifestyle- a moment by moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life- it as everyone else thinks me it is but as He knows it to be”

feeling some time of way about how the first chapter pulls 14 examples of leaders, all of whom are men & the one woman mentioned is the authors wife😮‍💨😗

letting this slow cook me
“His complaints are not culdesacs of sorrow but bridges that lead him to Gods character. ‘Yet’ marks the place in the journey where pain and belief can coexist.”

“Lament stands in the gap between pain and promise. To cry is human but to lament is Christian” a bar