"But there is also desperation, the troubled longing for personal and corporate transformation. When we're in that state, we utter our deepest and finest prayers. The prayer for mercy asks God to lift our face and remove our stain. Desperation introduces us to our shame, and much of our glory involves shame.
"In times of desperate prayer, God invites us to love the story he has written in our life, even the chapters that produce shame. No soul can hope to love the story infected with the stain of sin and streaks of sorrow unless the shame withers. And shame will not wither unless we choose to enter all of our stories - including the stories that bring heartache. We must enter the narrative naked before God and go there completely open to the story he has written."
- Dan Allender, To Be Told, 169, 170
Now how I am supposed to ever finish this book when it is full of statements like this that make me stop and cry?
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