The Bible talks about being vulnerable and connecting a lot. We must love God, others and ourselves by being vulnerable and connecting with our actions, words and emotions. If we choose not to be vulnerable and connect then we can not be transformed by God. The Bible has provided us with practical ways to do this. In this blog post, we talk more on ways to be vulnerable and connect with God, self, and others daily.

Each one of these emotions deserves space to breathe, space to have a voice, space to be heard and seen.

I've thought of all the times when I choose hiding over showing up. When I lurk into the shadows instead of bravely walking into the light and saying - here I am - pain, hurt, ugliness and all.

Oh God - how much we all want that for our stories - for it NOT to be for harm but instead be for good. And for not just one life to be saved because of our pain but for many lives to be saved. Yes - that's what we want!

We just kept right on running right beside it as we groaned, punched the air with our fists, and started laughing.

Why do we keep landing here? Asking ourselves - what are we really doing? Why are we limping along like this? Should it really be this difficult? This stressful?

This is an ever evolving practice at our home and we feel like we are almost constantly fighting for it. It never comes easy.

Remember, nothing will be impossible with God.

...and without the support from other wives I would have had neither strength nor courage enough to take that risk.

So I knew I was in for the wait. And in that wait, I knew I had choices to make.

Could it be that in order to be fully known in our relationship with our husband, we must first be fully known (as best as we know how) with ourselves?