Blue Like Jazz

faith-and-doubt

• There is nothing relevant about Christian spirituality… God, if He is even there, has no voice in this place.

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• I am confessing to you… I shook my head and looked at the ground. 'Everything,' I told him.

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shame

• My life had become something to hide; there were secrets in it… my sharp tongue a weapon to protect the ugly me.

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• The voices were telling me that I was as disgusting as the urine… I'd listened to them so often before, but on this day they were shouting.

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self-and-identity

• My father left my home when I was young, so when introduced to God as Father I imagined Him as a stiff, oily man.

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• Rick found that he wanted to party with his friends… from time to time he would fail at his moral efforts. Those were the most depressing moments of his life.

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