Love has a story. It’s bigger than you. It’s bigger than me. It comes from old, an overflow of the beautiful love shared between the Father whose heart bursts for the Son, the Son who adores His Father, all wrapped in the glorious, life-giving love of the Spirit. And this great Love knows and cherishes every secret and intimate detail of your story. This story is for you.
So where and how do we fit in this grand story of love? In Love Has a Story, author and poet Quina Aragon shares how, before the earth’s foundations, the great storyteller was penning a story that included you. Love was thinking about you, imagining ways to showcase His love for you, and planning to rescue you. This was not one of those sentimental loves, but a love that would traverse the wilderness in search of and for His beloved . . . and give everything—His life, blood, wounds, hope, and an invitation to be family.
Join Quina in entering the greatest love story ever told. Through the prose and poetry of these meditations, you will know God’s great love for the world and you. When you reach the end of this book, you will want to begin all over again. And you will want to share this great love story with your friends and family.
Before you danced in your mother’s womb, before Adam and Eve, your greatest grandparents ever walked the earth before stars lit up the night sky, there was God—handpicking you to inherit a bottomless ocean: His love. —Quina Aragon
Summary
In this conversation, Quina Aragon shares her journey of understanding God’s love, the role of poetry in expressing emotions, and how our personal stories intertwine with God’s grand narrative of love. She emphasizes the importance of engaging with our wounds and the healing power of community while also addressing the complexities of grief and love. Quina encourages listeners to see their lives as part of God’s love story and to embrace the healing from acknowledging their struggles.
Takeaways
God’s love is a central theme in our lives.
Poetry helps us slow down and connect emotionally.
Understanding our personal stories is crucial for spiritual growth.
We can trace our struggles to our family of origin.
Engaging with our wounds allows for deeper healing.
Community plays a vital role in our healing journey.
God’s love is steadfast, even in our darkest moments.
We can express our emotions through poetry and prayer.
Our stories are part of a larger narrative of God’s love.
Feeling hopeless and believing in God’s love can coexist.
Sound Bites
“Poetry invites us into our emotional life.”
“We are all part of God’s grand love story.”
“God wants to bring beauty out of the ashes.”
“Love is not a noun; it’s a verb.”
“God is the only God with scars.”
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.”
“Your story is not over.”
Chapters
00:00 The Journey of Understanding God’s Love
10:08 The Power of Poetry in Expressing Emotion
20:02 Seeing Our Lives as Part of God’s Love Story
30:14 The Wounded Healer and Our Stories
33:55 Embracing the Complexity of Love and Grief
Transcript:
Rachael Adams (00:06.84)
Well, hello, Quina, and welcome to the Love Offering Podcast. I’m so happy to have you.
Quina Aragon (00:13.193)
Thank you for having me. I’m excited to be here.
Rachael Adams (00:16.51)
We were talking, and I said, gosh, and I are just kindred spirits because your whole ministry and message is all about love, and as everybody that is tuning in knows, that’s what the Love Offering Podcast is all about. So I’m excited about today’s conversation based on your book, Love Has a Story, and your book explores how God’s love has existed and moved throughout time. So, how did this concept of God’s enduring love shape your life and inspire you to write this book?
Quina Aragon (00:45.665)
Thank you for asking. Moody Publishers asked me to write something about one of God’s attributes and do a one-hundred-day meditation or devotional on some attribute. And I got to pick, and I was praying and thinking. Which one? You know, I was leaning maybe towards justice. Should I do one that we don’t talk enough about? Because there’s like a million books on God’s love, rightly so, because you can’t say enough about it. But I ended up in love just because I think that has been the hardest truth for me to feel, for me to believe experientially. I know the verses, like I see a lot of the passages on God’s love, of course likeyou know, the cross and resurrection is like the greatest demonstration of God’s love for us. But I don’t know that I’ve historically in my walk with Jesus over the last 19 years or so, I don’t know that I’ve felt like felt it in my bones. That’s the best way to describe it, maybe. And so I felt the spirit prompting me to write about the thing I struggle with the most, as I guess God tends to do, like with our deepest woundedness and weakness, where he wants to make his strength known. And so the whole writing journey became, you know, was not easy, but it was really important for me. And I’m thankful it could mean something to others who read it.
Rachael Adams (02:34.99)
So, going to the root of why you may have struggled to believe that God loves you and trust in his love, why do you think that is based on your experience and background?
Quina Aragon (02:46.513)
Yeah, I think there are many ways to answer that. think what I try to show in the book are scenes, I try to tell the story of God’s love in giving a sort of biblical theology in terms of seeing the scriptures as one big story about God’s love. So, I think that it’s important to be able to read our stories from that lens. And as I was doing that, and as I’ve been doing that, I guess you could say my whole walk with Christ, but particularly in the last maybe six or so years, I’ve also coupled that in terms of, like, my spiritual formation and discipleship with counseling, trauma therapy, story work, and so, all that to say basically like looking at scenes from my life that have been impactful. Who were the main characters in my life? What have been some of the major settings in the plot? Twists are the themes that I can trace in my life. And certainly, one of the themes I can trace is that I’m unlovable. This kind of core belief or lie that I am not lovable, that I’m not likable or not worth sticking around for. And that comes from the soul of abandonment. Without going into the nitty gritty detail, I think what I try to show in the book is that these things are not random, like our sin struggles, struggles to believe God’s love, doubts, and fears; they’re not exactly random. They come from a story; they come from our life’s story. I think that exploring my family of origin, meaning my relationship with my parents and my relationship with my family as I grew up, helped form and malformed areas of my soul. So, being willing to engage some of those really hard parts of my story with Jesus, being willing to lament and to sit with him as my wounded healer,
Quina Aragon (04:59.625)
That has birthed for me a greater insight and understanding and even compassion for myself, my younger self, and my present self, where I struggle to believe deeply in the love of God. And so I think it comes from, yeah, my childhood. And if you wanna look back before that, as for all of us, we are born into a story passed down from our ancestors and from now, grandparents to parents to us. And so, yeah, I think engaging it, engaging that more with help, has been probably the most helpful thing for me to be able to articulate then what’s going on in here, in my heart, for the benefit of others in the way that God has gifted me to through poetry as well as, you know, writing these meditations.
Rachael Adams (05:52.662)
Yeah, you mentioned poetry. So you’re a spoken word artist and now an author as well. And so, how do you feel that poetry uniquely helps people connect with the beauty and truth of God’s love compared to other forms of communication?
Quina Aragon (06:04.885)
I love that question. So much of the Bible is written in poetry, including prophecies. So many of the prophet’s words are written in Hebrew poetry. So I think there’s a reason, many reasons for that. One, I think it speaks to God’s creativity. Two, poetry is written in lines, which makes us slow down. We tend to rush. We tend to, for, it’s. I was thinking about this and listening to a sermon about it. Still, suppose you were to trace all the times it mentions God passing by, passing by Moses, passing by Elijah, passing by the disciples on the boat, passing by the guys on the road to Emmaus. In that case, there’s a sense in which we tend to miss God because we’re rushing or because we’re focused on other things. So, All that to say, I think poetry forces us to sort of slow down. And I do talk about this in my book in the section on the Psalms. Still, it also connects us to the emotional life that we have a tendency, maybe especially as Christians or even as Christians, I should say, to be avoidant of our feelings because we know the promises of God, and we feel like we’re bad. Christians, if we are going through a season of depression or struggling with anxiety, We can’t seem to get over the thing that that person did to us that was egregious. We feel like men. We often heap shame on those emotions that we perceive as unfavorable: heart emotions, fear, anger. All of that poetry invites us, I think, into the emotional life that’s happening within us to be able to put words to it and to be able to pray those words to God then. It’s like an invitation of God to say, here, I know you’re, I’m sorry for this analogy, I know you’re emotionally constipated. I know that’s, here you go.
Quina Aragon (08:22.109)
This is to let loose those things that have just been stuck, like we feel stuck. So poetry invites us into that, being able to put words to our emotions and then not just to put words onto them, but to address them to God then, to send them to heaven’s address if you will. And in that exchange of wounds with Jesus, that poetry invokes in us. I think we get to experience what Paul talks about in Philippians three, this fellowshipping with Christ and his sufferings, so we can experience the power of the resurrection in our lives. What I mean by that is as I use the poetry of scripture to form my own words or to copy-paste, know, copy those words of scripture and read them back to God or pray them back to God, I’m going, Jesus, here’s my wound. Here’s what I’m perceiving: the shape and the look of that wound, as far as I can tell. And in that exchange, God isn’t just correcting our emotions, but he’s also saying, I know that emotion. Let me remind you of when I was abandoned by my friends, when I was betrayed by one of my closest friends, and when I, you know, like him, there’s this fellowshipping that happens. And so, All of scripture does that for us. Still, I think poetry slows us down enough to feel the feelings, to acknowledge them, to validate them, to permit yourself to feel, permission really from God, to feel them and to express them to him so that he also can, we can be tapped into the heart of God, which is one full of compassion, which is a feeling word.
Rachael Adams (10:08.93)
Yeah, absolutely. You know, what your book is centered around, and you mentioned, is that we each play a part in God’s grand love story. So, how can we begin to see our lives as a reflection of His love and action?
Quina Aragon (10:25.949)
Yeah, that’s good. I think starting where we are is important. I think for me as a younger Christian, especially, always, I felt like this pressure like I don’t have these big chunks of scripture memorized, or I don’t know what the book of Ezekiel has to do with like anything, or I’m so confused, and that’s okay. So I’ve written this book as a resource, an introductory like ground level allowing you to get footing. On understanding the story of scripture so that you can understand the big picture, so that as you’re reading the other stories, the stories within scripture, you’re able to place yourself and understand where you are at in redemptive history and in the story that God is writing, the love story he’s writing. But I think just the education piece of biblical theology, which is what that is, is not enough. And I say that like as somebody who loves, loves, loves, loves finding Christ in all the scriptures and tracing that story. I don’t think it’s enough to have just biblical education. And we can look to the Pharisees as an example, right? I think understanding the story God is writing as he wants us to understand it has to be coupled with some level of story work. And so, to answer your question, I think understanding the scripture story, growing in our understanding, also has to be married to growing in our understanding of our own lives and getting curious about what it is that God has been writing in my story, including the chapters that I would rather forget, and especially the chapters I would rather forget actually. Where is it that I’ve been most deeply wounded? And I would wager to say that in that area, you can probably trace some of your sin patterns and addictions to that area of woundedness. So, seeing Jesus as he defined it, his ministry, Luke four, as one in which he’s bringing healing and freedom, not just a, you’re terrible, and I’m here to forgive you of your sins only. Not only that, but also,
Quina Aragon (12:49.405)
I’m so into healing you. I’m so into holistically diving into your story and bringing beauty out of the ashes of your story, the place of your deepest shame and your deepest regret. Through my spirit, I want access to those rooms, if you will, and bring great glory and beauty that you can never ask or imagine for yourself. And so I think if we know the scripture story, we are always growing, never, like we’ve never arrived, like we’re gonna always grow in our understanding. But as we learn scripture, we start to read our own life story from that framing. And with help, with a good, wise, safe, Christian community that can where we can experience our wounds being witnessed like somebody bearing witness to my soul’s woundedness and seeing the face of Jesus in that person’s face as they weep with us, as they rejoice with us and all of that. So I think all that is because I don’t know if that was clear. Still, the function of, I think, really holistic discipleship has to include an understanding of scripture, obviously, biblical theology. Still, also somebody walking with us, people walking with us, helping us, asking us good questions, which I try to do in my book with the reflection questions to get you to start getting real curious about your story and what God might have been up to so that you can grow in the sense of agency and co-partnering with Godin writing that story or co-authoring to borrow from Dan Allender. But yeah.
Rachael Adams (14:50.19)
So, as you’ve started to realize how loved you are, how has that impacted how you love the people around you?
Quina Aragon (14:59.157)
Man, I love that question. Think of feeling; the first word that comes to mind is freedom. I’m not as anxious about whether I am doing everything correctly. Is every motive perfectly aligned before I get this thing done? This sense of Jesus has created a bigger space for us to live in than we tend to give ourselves, including our emotional life, relationships, and everything. So I feel a sense of more and more freedom to live my life with Jesus, to be with him, and from that place to be like him. I know that sounds overly simplistic, but what rhythms did Jesus have in his life? Prayer, for him, he was Jewish, so of course, three times a day. What are those things that he was doing? I see conviction now as an invitation into a greater experience of God’s love rather than like a judge’s hammer of condemnation. So again, I could have told you before that there’s no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. Still, in growing and experiencing God’s love as he’s poured it out into our hearts by the spirit, there becomes this greater freedom of like, like, this is the freedom you’re talking about. This is the abundance you want me to live in. I can love God and love people, and I’m going to mess up, and I’m going to run back to you. And all I gotta do, there’s no formula, but it’s just familiarity. I keep coming. I keep, as Jesus said, keep coming, come to me. So.
Rachael Adams (16:51.992)
What about loving yourself? This means that as you realize how beloved you are by Christ, how does that encourage you to accept and love yourself just as you are and He created you?
Quina Aragon (17:04.944)
Yeah, I think this beauty happens when you can look back a bit more at your younger self and have the compassion that Jesus already had for that little girl or boy. To look back.at the dumbest things I’ve ever done, like the ridiculous things I’ve ever done, the foolish things, the most evil and sinister things I’ve done, and to feel compassion for myself, not as an excuse for my sin, but a compassion that goes man, when I did that thing that was evil when I was engaged in that, I was so cut off from the whole experience that Jesus wanted for me of his love. And I feel bad. I feel sadness; I feel grief for that. But then also looking back at my younger self too, in those areas where I’ve been abused and. abandoned and things of that nature and to be able to look back at that little girl who is so, has historically been so hard on herself and so mean to herself, has said so many words. I’m still working. This is still a work in progress, but I would never tell my friends what I say to myself. I can look back at that little girl and go increasingly. That teenage girl and go, wow, like that’s a lot. to have God, you’re, I wanna weep with you. And so, I don’t know, I think it opens up more space in the heart for the compassion of Christ that’s already there. You’re just kinda stepping into it more.
Rachael Adams (19:09.432)
Now, My husband will say, I wish I could go back and hug you, your little girl self. You know, tell you it’s gonna be okay. I promise it’s gonna be okay. I’m like, this year, and you say it reminds me of whether we could encourage our younger selves like God’s got you. It’s gonna be okay. There, there’s gonna be good. He’s gonna use this, and I love you right here where you are, and I think we need to hear that today, too, for all of us listening, and the reality is that God’s love is different. It’s a God-love
Rachael Adams (19:40.778)
We don’t experience it here, you know, from humans because human love does fail. We’re so used to it, and that’s what we compare his love to. And I think, in our world, love is portrayed as fleeting and very conditional. So, how can we better communicate God’s eternal and unconditional love to others? It’s such a challenge.
Quina Aragon (20:02.685)
Henri Nouwen wrote a lot of things. One of the things he wrote is called The Wounded Healer. That was life-changing for me. And he said something along the lines of the most effective minister these days, and he wrote this decades ago, but I think it’s still true. The most effective minister these days is one who’s willing to enter into the inner workings of their own heart, to be able to bring articulation to those things, to God, and to experience God in that way so that they can then articulate those things to others. And in us doing that, other people are enlivened and get a sense of you, too?
Man, me too. I felt like that, or I’ve experienced that. I didn’t know there were even words for this. I didn’t know there was like I never even knew I could come to God about this. And so the more willing we are to pick up our cross does not simply mean just white-knuckling our way through. I’m not gonna sin again. I’m not gonna do this thing again. Because we already know that doesn’t work anyway. We do it again. But I don’t think picking up your cross means that. I don’t think it means just finding some willpower within yourself to overcome patterns of corruption that have been historically passed down onto you and embraced by you in your life story. I think picking up your cross probably has more to do with Henri Nouwen and what he was getting at in The Wounded Healer, which is, I’m willing, or what Jesus said: more importantly, Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those willing to engage the grief in their story with God and with others to lay it before Jesus, not just in a one-time moment, but like in an ongoing conversation because they shall be the ones who experience out-of-this-world comfort.
Quina Aragon (22:27.463)
And from that place, we can weep with those who weep better. We’re better at rejoicing with those who rejoice. Yeah, we’re better at that because we can say what’s been going on here. I share that, which I do in my book and other places, even in relationships. People who are going through very different scenarios, different circumstances can find that commonality, that common denominator of like that feeling of abandonment or that feeling of rejection or that feeling of whatever shame and go, that brings clarity to their soul, know, brings clarity to their woundedness that they might also experience that out of this world comfort. What Paul talks about in, I think, 2 Corinthians 1, where he says, know, we, we’ve been comforted by God, the God of all comforts in our particular afflictions, like the things that we went through so that we can then pass on that comfort to others in all their different types of afflictions. So we don’t have to have the same story as you or anybody else, but I’m more willing to engage on my own. It’s not like a selfish endeavor. It’s a want to see Jesus bringing healing and clarity here in my heart so that I can then hopefully, you know, be able to articulate that in the ways that God has gifted you and the relationships that God has given you to be faithful and stewarding that. Then, yeah, it helps others.
Rachael Adams (24:13.432)
Yeah, it makes me think about how love is not a noun; it’s a verb. It’s very action-oriented. It’s doing something in us, and then once it’s done that transformation and healing in us, we can go and be love, be God’s love to the world around us, but I am cognizant and mindful of the woman listening to that’s like yeah there’s no way that God loves me because of all the things that I have experienced in my life there’s no way a God who is good would allow these things to happen to me I think we have all felt that on some level sometimes and struggled with that tension. So what would you say to the woman feeling disconnected from God’s love today? Perhaps thinking her story’s too broken or too small to matter in the grand narrative of his work.
Quina Aragon (25:02.037)
That’s so good. What comes to mind is that God, this God we serve, the God of the Bible, Jesus, is the only God with scars. The resurrected Jesus, in all his victory, in all his glory, in all his defeating of death, bears wounds forever. There are some wounds he has chosen to keep. Some of that is somewhat mysterious to me still. But I find it very compelling that in the Book of Revelation, where we will end in our story, which is not an ending, it’s a forever story, but where we will end in a sense is an ongoing worship of a lamb who was slaughtered. I find so much comfort in that because I, too, have felt many times, and you’ll see this in the introduction of my book as I confess I am the one who said in the process of writing this book, which was supposed to be a 10-month project, turned into four years, I was the one who said, I think God’s trying to kill me. Also, I don’t know if he’s real. Also, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t like me if he is real. And so, I mean, in those spaces, finding that my Lord is wounded with me is profound, and it’s worth sitting with. He is a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Good, close friends with grief. If you wanna talk about abuse, he was abused. If you wanna talk about abandonment, he was abandoned. If you wanna talk about rejection, he was rejected. And so, for…The God of the universe who made the stars, who keeps all the planets in line, who knows every hair on my head, who knows it all and is all powerful, for him to reveal himself most clearly through his son Jesus, becoming a man, becoming poor, you wanna talk about poverty? He was born into poverty. Do you wanna talk about oppression? He was born under Roman occupation; he revealed himself as a poor Jewish man under Roman occupation, rejected by his people, abandoned by his friends, stripped of the very little possessions he had in the first place, to bear not just his body on the cross, but his very heart, which is, as he said to Moses, compassionate and gracious full of steadfast love. And so here he is on the cross bearing his heart and body. And so this isn’t to beat anybody over the head with, like, here’s the facts, and you need to accept it. There’s freedom to be where you’re at and ask God why. Because here he is on the cross, quoting Psalm 22 and saying, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And I tap into that in the book because I wrote a poem about it. There’s this like, wow, if God himself, the eternal son of God, who’s known the plan of God from all eternity past, who’s slain before the foundation of the world to quote scripture. Like if he can go on the cross in his full humanity and say, Why have you forsaken me? What freedom is there for you to ask the same question to God? He quotes David, who was feeling that way in Psalm 22. So, what freedom is there for you to lament? I wanna encourage you listener who feels this way like blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted as much as it feels like when I look at this woman; if you want me to engage that, I’m going to be sucked into the abyss of eternal depression. Like I’ll never get out of this cave. But I would say your hesitancy, like your doubts, your feelings of rage, your feelings of deep, deep grief that, like grief, doesn’t even do justice to how you feel. It is as much of a hindrance to God’s love in writing your story as was the tomb to Christ, meaning it’s not a hindrance. The tomb was a dark, dark place of death, and Christ was able to defeat that. So yeah, I don’t know, think, yeah, you have a wounded healer, and maybe sit with that for a while, and it is not overnight. Sit with that with wise and safe friends. Pray for wise and safe friends, counselors, and the like to be able to bear witness to some of your pain.
Rachael Adams (30:21.71)
Tina, I think that was so beautiful and powerful, and I think that’s something I want to go back to and repeatedly listen to what you just said. No matter what place we’re in, I think that will minister to every woman. That was the perfect synopsis of Christ, who He is, what He’s done for us, and what that means for us in our own story. So thank you so much. You know, one of the questions that I’ve been asking all of my guests this season, is there a biblical concept of love that applies to this topic, which is so funny because we have just talked about it the entire time. And so I know that that is true of you and your ministry in this book. Is there anything we haven’t discussed on this topic of love that you would want to add to this conversation?
Quina Aragon (31:08.599)
Goodness. If we could have three more hours, that’d be great. No, I think the phrase that comes to mind is when I mention and when I talk about the Book of Lamentations in my book, there’s a sense in which the prophet Jeremiah, in circling, decimated Jerusalem at the time of exile, where all of the the the symbols of God’s faithful presence with Israel at that time in the story were obliterated. The temple, the tablets where the law was written, the Davidic king, and all these symbols of God’s great promises that were to come were at that time in history, just like those obliterated by the Babylonians. And Jeremiah, who had been faithful throughout this to try to warn the people, to try to turn them away from their idolatry, he still, along with the remnant who believed, had to witness with their own eyes the absolute decimation of their culture, their way of living, and most importantly, what felt like the presence of God leaving them. And so, as he circles that decimated Jerusalem, he repeats his lament and lamentations over and over and over again. So for those who are like, man, I’m here again, Jesus, I sound like a broken record, you’re probably annoyed with me by now. It’s not because scripture gives you that invitation and lamentation but because he goes around and repeats the same thing. And I’m seeing the poor getting oppressed, and I’m seeing the girls get abused, and I’m seeing this and that. He says it repeatedly, and he admits in chapter three that we tend to just go for some reason to chapter three when he gets to some resolution in his lament, but we have to look at it in context. And so when he gets to chapter three, he says, you know, I feel hopeless. I think that’s verse 18, like, I feel hopeless. And yet, I believe that the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. That’s where we get great, and that is your faithfulness. Your mercies are renewed every morning. That proclamation that comes right after. So is it possible that, and I think it is, that both things can be true? You feel hopeless in this season as maybe you’re experiencing absolute destruction of your marriage, your friendships, your community, whatever the case may be, and your relationship with your children. Is it possible to feel hopeless and admit that to God? And yet, somehow, God is also forming a deeper resolution to your story than saying yes to your prayers. Good prayers for children, reconciliation, unity, good prayers, good prayers, and good desires. Is it possible that God can say no to that? In your story, or maybe until you die, he’s writing a deeper resolution than he seems to be doing in the prophet Jeremiah when you look at Lamentations 3. I feel hopeless and at the same time two things can be true, many things can be true at once, your steadfast love never ceases. Which is to say, and we see it as if we keep reading the story of scripture, of course God still fulfills his promises despite what that season was for Israel, God’s love is not done, so neither is your story. That’s what I hope to say finally. God’s love is not done, so neither is your story.
Rachael Adams (34:43.443)
Amen. Absolutely. Is there something that you are loving right now? There are… no rules to this. Anything that first comes to your mind.
Quina Aragon (34:53.347)
Well, we just talked about it before the podcast, but I just got a little, I’m so giddy right now because I just got a little bit of kale from my, my, I live in a townhouse, so I have like balconies, not a yard. So, I started a garden this year because I wanted to grow stuff that I could eat, and I love kale, specifically dinosaur kale. And so I just got a little harvest of it. So I am loving just seeing the tiny, they’re technically like little mustard seeds, like Jesus talks about, like tiniest seed grow into something that can become an actual salad tonight, so yeah.
Rachael Adams (35:29.442)
We discussed how I have some land and need to steward it well. I need to start planting some seeds, so I love that and think there is so much gratification in seeing the fruit of your labor, no matter what. Literal food or other fruit that we may experience through our relationship with Christ. Well, I know I want to stay connected with you. I love today’s conversation. I’m sure listeners are going to want to stay connected with you get to know yo,u and buy your books. So let us know how we can best do that.
Quina Aragon (35:59.125)
Sure, the easiest way is just to go to lovehasastory.com, and you’ll find pretty much everything there. You can join my email list and hear from me more frequently if that’s what you want. You can also join me on social media, but yeah, lovehasastory.com.
Rachael Adams (36:14.136)
Well, would you mind to pray for us as we close?
Quina Aragon (36:16.757)
Father, thank you so much for this conversation, Lord. Sometimes, we don’t know how our words are gonna have an impact on people. And so I ask that you who have an eternal and living word, who you’ve given us, can pierce and find the cracks and crevices of our hearts and apply your word exactly where we need it. So I am praying that what we were talking about today, the things we brought up, and the things we were processing out loud, would meet each woman or man who listens to this podcast in a very individual way that they need to hear from you.
Jesus, thank you for caring down to the hairs of our heads and the crevices of our hearts and the chapters of our stories that remain unresolved, the subplots that remain unresolved, and the chapters that remain dark and mysterious. God, I thank you for investing not merely in giving us every answer to all our questions but in hearing our hearts and then speaking to our hearts in a way that only you can. So I pray you would do that even now in Jesus’ amen.
Rachael Adams (37:48.04)
Amen. Well, Kena, thank you for being my guest. Thank you for helping us realize how loved we are by God and that love has a story. Thank you so much.
Quina Aragon (37:57.365)
Thank you.
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