“‘What is real?’ asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day… ‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse.  ‘It’s a thing that happens to you…’  ‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Velveteen Rabbit.  ‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.  ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’

What is real?  Real living, real believing, real faith?  Real living doesn’t always feel like living; it can feel like you’re dying.  It can feel like you’re breaking apart and losing pieces of yourself – and you are.  Because when you let yourself love, you let parts of you die.  Or you aren’t really loving.  You must let your false self be broken, parts of you that you only thought were necessary.  You must embrace your union with Christ, bravely surrender and trust that what is breaking and being lost is never the eternal, needed parts of you, but always the temporal, needless parts that were getting in the way of you becoming real.”

{From ‘A Broken Way’ by Ann Voskamp}

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