God can heal a broken heart but He has to have all the pieces...

Dear Jesus, help me to tell the truth about my journey, which shame and sadness once held captive. Give me the courage to speak, however traumatic the effort, however halting the words. Grant me the trembling grace to get through it, however many tears it takes to punctuate it.

Thank You for the community that forms around the sharing of each of our stories. Transform the teller in the telling and the listener in the listening. Create community, Lord, one story at a time, and mature our community into the fullness of the body of Christ. Make my life and my story nothing more than or less than a testimony of God’s transforming love. In Jesus name, Amen.