Pain

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• Smashed and Tattered Jul 4, 2022 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 held by the One Who loves them.…
• Taking The Long View on Sorrow And Pain Jan 5, 2022 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 lifetime only a tiny fraction of the…
• The Power of Lament Jun 15, 2021 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 as our expectation is from other things,…
• The Story of The Union Weld: Pain Has Meaning Nov 30, 2020 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 been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized…
• Living Through The Pain: Walking in The Spirit Jul 12, 2020 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 quite simply at His disposal, and ask…
• The Freedom in Continued Shattered Dreams Jul 8, 2020 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 who can be saved?” Jesus looked at…
• Infant on The Anvil Nov 22, 2019 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 Lord, with ourselves as your servants for…
• Bitter or Better? Aug 19, 2019 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 earth had passed away, … And I…
• Wounding A Man, That He Might Be Healed Oct 31, 2018 It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.~A.W. Tozer Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For He wounds,…
• Some of My Students Interview Me Jun 4, 2018 TIS SENIORS’ RESEARCH PAPER – Reasons For Faith BY: (JY, DL, KBY) Introduction This research emerged from discussions in our ‘Reasons for Faith’ class and is aimed to research the theme of ‘worldviews’. Methodologically, we approached…
• Sorrow Beyond Measure May 14, 2018 It was also like this for St. Jerome when he translated the Bible. Everyone was his master. He alone was entirely incompetent as people, who were not good enough to clean his boots, judged his works.…
• Capacity for Messy Compassion Apr 26, 2018 It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom, makes the narrow heart as wide as the world. Compassion takes away from the heart the inert weight, the paralyzing heaviness; it gives…
• Reframing Rejection: Digging A New Well Apr 19, 2018 There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go. ~ Jessica Hatchigan And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him, and the man became rich,…
• Devoured by Words And Bitterness Apr 16, 2018 No matter what bitterness has befallen you, no matter what unpleasantness has happened to you, say, “I shall endure this for Jesus Christ!” and it will be easier for you. For the name of Jesus Christ…
• Spent for A Friend Apr 12, 2018 Often people request prayers for deliverance, inner healing, or physical healing. But more frequently they simply want a man or woman to whom they can turn–not because of what this person is able to do but…
• The Wounds of Our Warfare Feb 4, 2018 We cannot become Christlike without being wounded. You see, even after we come to Christ, we carry encoded within us preset limits concerning how far we will go for love, and how much we are willing…
• A King Born to Be Rejected Jan 23, 2018 What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own…
• Always Pain – Always More G_d Sep 9, 2017 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 call. We can receive it if we…
• Our Own Personal 9/11s: It Matters How We Handle Our Pain Jun 30, 2017 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 experience of my life. There have been…
• Suffering: Warfare in The Hornet’s Nest of Our Mind Jun 25, 2017 When you’re lovers in a dangerous time Sometimes you’re made to feel as if your love’s a crime — But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight — Got to kick at the darkness…
• Death and Life in Our Tongue Jun 13, 2017 Jesus… says it’s murder when we destroy people with our words. It’s murder when we put people down and treat them as insignificant. ~Rebecca Manley Pippert For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does…
• Loving Beyond Pain Mar 25, 2017 I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe…
• We Cannot Keep What We Do Not Give Away Feb 16, 2017 The seed dies into a new life and so does man. ~George Macdonald (1824-1905) “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on…
• Pain And Beauty Feb 15, 2017 Bloody nose and burning eyes Raised in laughter to the skies I’ve been in trouble but I’m ok Been through the wringer but I’m ok Walls are falling and I’m ok Under the mercy and I’m…
• Responding to The Hand We Were Dealt Jan 26, 2017 Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. ~Jawaharlal Nehru Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the…
• Him Bleeding Life into Our Pain Jan 3, 2017 I just know that—old scars can break open like fresh wounds and your unspoken broken can start to rip you wide open and maybe the essence of all the questions is: how in the holy name…
• Love Deeply, Weep Freely Dec 8, 2016 Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have. ~John Piper And the Lord afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife…
• The Joy in Not Getting What We Want Sep 25, 2016 Sometimes He calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm to rage, And calms His child.~ Leslie GouldI will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all…
• Pressed Beyond Measure Aug 15, 2016 The paths of wisdom are not like walks in the garden, which we make use of for diversion only, and an amusement; but like tracks in a great road, which we press forward in with care…
• The Reality of Our Suffering, And The Great Exchange Aug 4, 2016 Therefore, my dear brother, learn Christ and him crucified. Learn to pray to him an, despairing of yourself, say: “Thou, Lord Jesus, art my righteousness, but I am thy sin. Thou hast taken upon thyself what…
• You Will Be Ravaged if You Love Jul 25, 2016 I will never forget the day I realized that both God and the devil wanted me to die but for different reasons. Satan wanted to destroy me through slander while God wanted to use these same…
• Offense: Cuts Like A Knife Jun 27, 2016 God has a new heart for us that cannot be offended, an “unoffendable” heart. Beloved, possessing an unoffendable heart is not an option or a luxury; it’s not a little thing. An offended heart is endanger…
• Dismal Success Apr 8, 2016 There will be no “knights in shining armor” in God’s kingdom; our armor will have many dings and dents. No, no perfect Hollywood heros will ride to save the day; just wearied saints to look to…
• The Deep Hurt of The Soldier of The Cross Mar 21, 2016 The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.~Brennan Manning, The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is…
• Monuments of Pain Feb 18, 2016 We must not be surprised at even the greatest defects in good souls. We must quietly leave them alone until God gives the signal of gradual removal. Otherwise we will pull up the wheat with the…
• Wounded to Be Healed Feb 2, 2016 It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. ~ A.W. TozerHave this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though He was in the form…
• Tough Curves on The Path Nov 5, 2015 Before I am asked to show compassion toward my brothers and sisters in their suffering, He asks me to accept His compassion in my own life, to be transformed by it, to become caring and compassionate…
• Eternity’s Freedom Oct 13, 2015 Mourning is redeemed by hope. And both are wed in the freedom of eternity with Christ.~ Makala Barnabas Doulos Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said…
• Don’t Forget The Wound Sep 29, 2015 No man ever got so much out of a surgical operation as Adam did.Originally one, he has fallen, and, breaking up… he has filled the whole earth with the pieces.~Saint Augustine of Hippo (354-430) Hear, you…
• Fools in Exile Aug 23, 2015 Our Life in Christ. It’s not an easy thing to grasp. Maybe you understand it only by living it. And maybe Augustine was right on the money when he wrote: ‘Give me someone who loves and…
• Inches from Death, And Totally Alive Jul 8, 2015 Getting honest with ourselves does not make us unacceptable to God. It does not distance us from God, but draws us to Him—as nothing else can—and opens us anew to the flow of grace. While Jesus…
• Knowing Who You Are = Success in Suffering Apr 23, 2015 Flee a thousand leagues from saying, “I was in the right. It was not right for me to suffer this. They had no right to treat me so.” God deliver us from all such rights. And…
• Truth or Comfort? Mar 1, 2015 If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the…
• The Inherent Pain of Love Mar 1, 2015 I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.~ Mother Teresa of CalcuttaWe should all like life to be free from suffering, and our…
• Phantom Pain Oct 21, 2014 What are you afraid of? Let God act. Abandon yourself to Him. You will suffer, but you will suffer with love, peace and consolation. You will fight, but you can carry off the victory, and God…
• When Division Brings Healing Aug 13, 2014 God never develops one part of our being at the expense of the other; spirit, soul, and body are kept in harmony.~Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)“Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if…
• No One to Blame – No Need Either May 6, 2014 Self-pity… cuddle and nurse it as an infant and you’ll have on your hands in a brief period of time a beast, a monster, a raging, coarse brute that will spread the poison of bitterness and…
• Pain: The Universal Solvent Dec 4, 2013 We are immortals dreaming the terrible dream of mere mortality. ~Peter Kreeft Any reader who has visited here more than a few times has probably picked up on the fact that this writer is an irredeemable…
• HyperJoy Sep 7, 2013 True joy is not a thing of moods, not a capricious emotion, tied to fluctuating experiences. It is a state and condition of the soul. It survives through pain and sorrow and, like a subterranean spring,…

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