Broken Open by Life?
How to experience God’s grace when life is falling apart!
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I didn’t expect to cry. But these words of “Paul Tillich” shattered something inside me, and something deeper began to awaken. Most people don’t recognize grace when it comes. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t fix anything.
It arrives in the silence… when your inner world has fallen apart.
Read this slowly. Let it meet you where you are and heal you…
“Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life.
It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us.
It strikes us when, year after year, the longed-for perfection of life does not appear, when the old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades.
When despair destroys all joy and courage.
Sometimes, at that moment, a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying:
You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know.
Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later.
Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later, you will do much.
Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything.
Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.
If that happens to us, we experience grace. After such an experience, we may not be better than before, and we may not believe more than before.
But everything is transformed. In that moment, grace conquers sin, and reconciliation bridges the gulf of estrangement.
And nothing is demanded of this experience, no religious or moral or intellectual presupposition, nothing but acceptance.”
-Paul Tillich
Once You Heal: How to Connect with Someone Who Feels Broken
When someone is broken,
Don't try to fix them.
(You can't.)
When someone is hurting,
don't attempt to
take away their pain.
(You can't.)
Instead, love them by walking
beside them in the hurt.
That also means sitting with them in stillness.
(You can.)
Because sometimes what
people need is simply to know
They aren't alone.
- (Tinybuddha.com)
The Ultimate 9-Page Guide to Experiencing That Silent Power Called God
These nine pages contain the greatest spiritual wisdom. You can read this book in an hour and experience a glimpse of your True Self. Each time I read its profound verses, they offer me a direct taste of liberation, reminding me that God isn’t different from us but our inner stillness. Its timeless wisdom cuts through the mind's noise and helps me surrender within, letting go of the constant chatter and finding peace in the present moment.
Full of wisdom and enlightenment:
PN
Beautiful, thank you.