分享脆弱/SHARE YOUR VULNERABILITY

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作家兼演讲家杰基·希尔·佩里 (Jackie Hill Perry) 写道：“说 ‘我疯了’ 比说 ‘我受伤了’ 更容易。有时，愤怒是一层面纱，其背后是痛苦、伤害、没有安全感、以及其它因着我们的脆弱不堪而无法言及的事情。因此，当我们想要的只是一个拥抱时，我们却表现得气急败坏、怒不可遏。” 那么，您愿意与人分享多少您的脆弱？您又愿意从他人那里吸取多少脆弱呢？我发现这两个问题对我都具有挑战性。有时人们与我分享一些事情，坦率地说，我希望他们没有这么做。但是，转念一想，我一定是得到了他们一定程度的信任。所以，我尽我所能，用神给我的力量来帮助他们。那您呢？您是否觉得有些事情尚未与人、与神分享过？

圣灵与您触手可及，并将通过神的话语来展现其奇妙恩典。今天的圣经章节摘自于【约翰一书】第四章第13-15节：“神将他的灵赐给我们，从此就知道我们是住在他里面，他也住在我们里面。父差子作世人的救主；这是我们所看见且作见证的。凡认耶稣为神儿子的，神就住在他里面，他也住在神里面。”

休憩之时，神与您同在，愿您在对神的坚固信心中安然入睡。神祝福您。

亲切的问候，

杰夫牧师

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Author and Speaker Jackie Hill Perry wrote, “It is easier to say ‘I’m mad’ than it is to say ‘I’m hurt’. At times, anger is a veil. Behind it is pain, hurt, insecurity, and other things our fragility won’t allow us to name. So we rage to project strength when all we wanted the entire time was a hug.” Just how much vulnerability are you comfortable with sharing? Just how much vulnerability are you comfortable with receiving from another. I’ve found I have to work on both. Sometimes people share stuff with me that, frankly, I wish they didn’t. But then I think that I must have somehow gained a degree of trust from them. So I do what I can to help with the strength God gives me. What about you? Are you feeling things that you haven’t talked about with someone else? With God?

The Holy Spirit is very near to you to minister his amazing grace through the Scripture section from 1 John 4:13-15, “God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. 16 We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.”

God is with you and in that you can trust and rest tonight. God bless you!

Kind regards,

Pastor Jeff