{Week 8 Core Need is the need to be safe: Unafraid; trusting everything is under control.}

Many of us struggle with anxiety and fear. (Most of us? All of us?) We could shame ourselves. (“Why am I still wrestling with this!? I should know I’m safe!”) But instead of shaming ourselves, why don’t we look below the fear to the good need driving that fear: the need to be safe?

We unpack this good need to be safe with author and award-winning musician, Michael Card. Through the lens of safety, we explore God’s character–His inexpressible hesed or lovingkindness and His invitation to rail on His chest in lament.

Highlights:
“This is the same God who spoke the universe into existence, who laid the foundations of the earth, [and] who created the stars and named each one of them. That same God invites me to exhaust myself against him when I’m confused or angry–even at him.” –Michael Card

“Hesed is when the person from whom I have a right to expect nothing gives me everything–not a second chance, more chances than you can possibly imagine.” –Michael Card

“Because God is a god of lovingkindness [hesed] I am safe to say… anything… Nowhere in Scripture does God say, ‘How dare you talk to me like that.'” –Michael Card

“Worship comes from the Old English worth-ship. To worship God is to celebrate his worth. You don’t discover his worth at a picnic on a green lawn. You discover his worth when you’re hungry and you need manna. You discover his worth in the wilderness.” –Michael Card

Do the Next Thing:
Check out Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament 
Check out Inexpressible: Hesed and the Mystery of God’s Lovingkindness
Check out Michael’s website here
Follow Michael on Facebook
Follow Michael on Instagram

Question of the Week for Next Week:
​What is one of your style things that makes you unique?—Like actual tangible object. (I know you all can quote your Enneagram, Meyer’s Briggs, Harry Potter house…) but is there a unique physical hat you wear, vest you grab, way you do your hair that makes you feel like you?