God Is Not Abusive
(Common Hymnal ft. Brittney Spencer)

Jesus sees my trauma
Holds my broken pieces
And draws me to his kindness
Hallelujah

What does it mean to you for God to be present with your pain and trauma?

This episode was written and recorded by Common Hymnal. Background tracks used during the intro and outro feature Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear.

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Common Hymnal is an online library for the spiritual underground, a connecting point for an as-yet-uncoalesced movement around the exchange of songs, stories and ideas. Brittney Spencer is a songwriter-singer with a free spirit and a love for molding life, truth and wild imagination into songs.

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