Finding God in the Cracks: Living with Contradiction and Grace

There are moments in life when our faith and our feelings seem to compete instead of collaborate.We believe God is good — yet we doubt Him. We know we’re loved — yet we fear being left. We teach others how to stay calm — yet find ourselves unraveling. For years, I thought those contradictions meant I was broken. Or worse — faithless. But over time, I’ve come to see that contradiction isn’t a sign of spiritual failure. It’s the soil where transformation begins.

“God meets us in the cracks — in the space between what we know and what we feel, between belief and confusion. The very gaps we try to hide are the openings where grace breathes in.”— The Mind Spirit Bible Practice

Where Strength Meets Weakness

“My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9

In Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), we learn to hold two truths at once — that pain and peace can coexist, that I can be doing my best and still need to grow. Faith teaches the same: that God’s power is made perfect not in our polish, but in our cracks.

Jesus lived in contradiction — both fully God and fully human, embodying surrender and strength, crucifixion and resurrection. His life teaches us that healing often happens in tension, not in certainty.

When I learned to stop fighting my contradictions and instead bring them to God, something changed. My emotions stopped feeling like proof of weakness and started feeling like invitations to presence.

“Faith was never meant to erase our humanity — it was meant to redeem it.”— The Mind Spirit Bible Practice

Where God Dwells

The cracks in our lives — anxiety, grief, doubt, the tension of opposites — are not signs of absence; they’re proof of God’s nearness. Like light breaking through shattered glass, His presence refracts through our broken places, making beauty we couldn’t see before.

That’s the heart of The Mind Spirit Bible Practice: learning to integrate Scripture and psychology so that emotional wellness becomes spiritual formation.

Reflection Practice

1. Pause: Notice one contradiction you’ve been wrestling with — something that feels both true and painful.

2. Pray: “God, meet me here — not in who I should be, but in who I am.”

Because God is not waiting for your wholeness. He’s already whispering in the cracks.

The Mind Spirit Bible Practice

A faith-based approach to emotional wellness integrating DBT skills and biblical truth — coming soon.