BRKN Soul Care

A place where you are seen, heard, and never alone.

BRKN Soul Care

A place where you are seen, heard, and never alone.

SOUL MATTERS — THE BRKN BLOG

  • Unbind Him and Let Him Go — What Lazarus Teaches Us About Community in Healing

    Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scripture: John 11:43-44 “When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, ‘Take off the grave clothes and let him go.’” — John 11:43–44 There is a moment in the resurrection of Lazarus that I have never been able to move past quickly. Jesus has already done the impossible thing. He has called a dead man out of a tomb. Lazarus is alive. The miracle…

  • Four Friends and a Roof — What Mark 2 Teaches Us About Showing Up

    Topic: Soul Care Basics   —   Key Scriptures: Mark 2:3-5 “And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, ‘Son, your sins are forgiven.’” — Mark 2:3–5 The paralyzed man did not get himself to Jesus. He could not. That is the point. His condition made it impossible for him to do…

  • Losing Yourself in the Doing — The Slow Erasure of Ministry and Caregiving

    Topic: Burnout and Ministry Fatigue   —   Key Scripture: Psalm 139:1,13 There is a version of losing yourself that happens all at once — the crisis, the breaking point, the moment where everything changes and you can point to it afterward and say: that is when it happened. And then there is the other kind. The slow kind. The kind that happens so gradually, across so many ordinary days of showing up and meeting demands and being what everyone needs you to be, that you do not notice it is happening until one day you look up and realize that the…

  • Take Up Your Mat — Why Jesus Told a Healed Man to Carry His Suffering

    Topic: Kintsugi and Redemption   —   Key Scripture: John 5:6-9 “When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be healed?’ The sick man answered him, ‘Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Get up, take up your bed, and walk.’ And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the…

  • The Friends Who Said Nothing — What Job 2 Teaches Us About Presence

    Topic: Ministry of Presence   —   Key Scriptures: Job 2:11-13, Job 42:7-9 “Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven. And they sat with him on the ground seven days…