Providing Refuge: August 2012

Friday, August 24, 2012

Still Moving

Hey everyone!

I know it looks like I've been MIA for awhile... but actually I'm posting fairly often at www.myrefugehouse.com/blog

I also have guest blogged a few times for the Marcella project. Here are the links:

http://www.themarcellaproject.com/id-rather-be-right-than-righteous

http://www.themarcellaproject.com/sex-trafficked-rescued-and-restored

http://www.themarcellaproject.com/a-single-womans-perspective

So stay updated at www.myrefugehouse.com, follow our facebook page (www.facebook.com/MyRefugeHouse) , and check back often, to hear our latest thoughts, stories and challenges as we work for justice for the most vulnerable.

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

-C.S. Lewis

"Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen