A Blessing for Opening to Grace and Truth
A Blessing for Opening to Grace and Truth
Author: Kate Bowler
Source: Kate Bowler (The Lives We Actually Have / Substack)
Link: https://katebowler.com
Advent placement: 2025-12-18 (paired with [[18-whiskey-jypsi-tribute-double-barreled-bourbon]])
Theme: Troubled, flinty, melting hearts opened to Christ at the center of things.
Verbatim source text
Reproduced from calendar/2025-12-18.qmd (Whisk(e)y Advent 2025).
A Blessing for Opening to Grace and Truth
by Kate Bowler
Jesus, bless the hearts we have, for we are troubled by many things. Hearts that are hard like flint, or melting like wax at the way things are in the world. Bless these troubled, flinty, melty hearts. We open them to you.
Jesus, there’s freedom in this, in realizing that you are there at the very center of things. Holding our trouble and our fears and also our joy and excitement.
You are there, hands cupped around our contradictions. You are the home we always wanted.
For your truth is unfailingly gracious, and your grace is unfailingly true. Come, Lord Jesus.