Smashed and Tattered
Blessed – lucky – are those who cry. Blessed are those who are sad, who mourn, who feel the loss of what they love – because they will be …
Category: Pain
Taking The Long View on Sorrow And Pain
It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.We accomplish in our …
The Power of Lament
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long …
The Story of The Union Weld: Pain Has Meaning
Happiness is neither within us only, or without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.~Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Do you not know that all of us who have …
Living Through The Pain: Walking in The Spirit
Begin at once; before you venture away from this quiet moment, ask your King to take you wholly into His service, and place all the hours of this day …
The Freedom in Continued Shattered Dreams
The goal is that God be glorified in us, not that He be useful to us. ~ Larry Crabb And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to Him, “Then …
Infant on The Anvil
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.~ Henry Ward Beecher For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as …
Bitter or Better?
We are immortals dreaming the terrible dream of mere mortality. ~Peter Kreeft Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first …
