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Broken, Shattered, or a Little Chipped: Learn Your Capacity for Kindness

Elaine Murray
3 min readMay 28, 2021

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Your status doesn’t keep you from healing, loving, pouring yourself into the world’s goodness.

What if every time you felt something, it was your body showing you that you are loved?

It’s exasperating, isn’t it, being human? We tout messages about the importance of self-care, kindness, and calls to be “decent human beings” because our country, our world is falling apart.

It’s not impossible, but it is challenging to fill from an empty cup.

Photo by Milada Vigerova on Unsplash

Who is taking from yours?

We run around thinking there’s never enough time, enough money, enough of anything to accomplish what we aspire to or what the need is in a given moment.

To live a life of abundance means recognizing that the cup is refillable, effervescent, and what you give to others is of your boundless overflow. Each of us is born with the capacity to love and be loved.

You could think of it like a glass.

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Elaine Murray
Elaine Murray

Written by Elaine Murray

Pastor | Mother | Communicator | Spiritual Director | Child of God

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