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Jump: Explaining Beauty Away
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Friday, February 3, 2012. I have spent a lot of time in the past 10 years writing about the hardships in life. My scars are hardly unique, but I have sought to embrace the experiences and the implications of. Life’s broken beauty with as much honesty as I can muster. But there is more to “broken beauty” than the broken. There is also beauty. In the presence of sometimes staggering pain and ugliness, one must either explain it or explain it away. The New Atheist movement. The Christian theologian wonders,...
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Jump: The Testimony of the Repaired
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Saturday, December 29, 2012. The Testimony of the Repaired. 8220;Deep calls unto deep,”. Said the writer of Psalm 42 as he was begging God for comfort in the midst of his despair. The word "deep" means "abyss." It can be a literal geographical location, but it can also be that place in one's heart where chaos and emptiness overwhelms. One translation reads,. 8220;Hollow howlings hang in the air.". Recovery groups are headed up by people who have gone through (or are going through) the recovery process.