He Makes Beautiful Things Out Of Us
She said it the way people tell you they are going to take out the trash. A matter of fact. Unemotional. Because when you are taking out the trash, it just needs taken out. And maybe sometimes the ugly truth has to come out that way too. She said she was raped. She said that she just couldn’t hide it, because it’s the shame that rots your heart like so much garbage and she just wanted to be free. And she said that she knew, she knew that God didn’t do this to her. That He loved her. She said that she wasn’t going to hide it because she knew, that this is the stuff God uses. This is the stuff God uses. He uses it to tell His story. To tell the story of His redeeming grace. That God can redeem anything. Everything. All things become grace in His glorious hand. And only grace can give you this kind of hope, the hope to come out of hiding, the hope to believe in beauty again. And I’ve ...