Always Pain – Always More G_d
Suffering is at the burning core of everything because love is. We need not feel alone in suffering because God is a suffering God who pulls close at our …
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Battle-Softened Warrior
…I thank Thee that Thou art risen from the dead, that at this very moment Thou dost indwell me in the person and power of Thy divine Spirit; that …
It’s Too Much: The Impossible Life He Has Given Us
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in …
Out of The Prison, And into The Light
If thou intend not nor seek nothing else but the pleasing of God and the profit of thy neighbor thou shalt have inward liberty. ~Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471) …
Into The Memory Abyss: Finding Healing
July 13, 2017 abandon, Acceptance, Addiction, Bitterness, Dark Night of the Soul, death to self, Feelings, healing No Comments
There is no escaping the cross. You will feel either pain in your body or tribulation in your spirit. Sometimes you will feel deserted by God. Sometimes your neighbor …
Our Own Personal 9/11s: It Matters How We Handle Our Pain
In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, “I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the …
When Someone Wants to Steal Your Joy
The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make …
True Nobility: Freedom to Submit
Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility …
