Creating a Safe Space

Friend, tell me about your cracked open places,⠀
 Your not so shiny places.⠀
 The places where you’ve been brought to your knees, ⠀
 The don’t know where up is ⠀
 places.⠀
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 Share with me your triumphs,⠀
 Your beauty and uniquely made-by-God-places.⠀
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 And I’ll show you mine.⠀
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 Let’s make a safe place, ⠀
 Where we value our differences as they expand us,⠀
 Find the humanity that unites us.⠀
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 Let’s make a welcoming space.⠀
 Where we build each other up, share our burdens,⠀
 Draw each other toward-redemption-space. ⠀
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 Not a correcting space, but a, “I hear you.” space.⠀
 Not a complaining space,⠀
 But a shouldering burdens so you can remember ⠀
 To-take-heart ⠀
 space.⠀
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 Your glory takes nothing from mine space⠀
 It enhances the God colors ⠀
 And we’re about making them shine, space. ⠀
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 It’s in these fractals we see more of what God’s design is;⠀
 A delighting, insisting, with-us in the mess and glory space.⠀