Walking Wounded
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the …
Category: suffering
The Friend Closer Than A Brother
July 29, 2022 abandon, Acceptance, Consecration, Fully mature sons, suffering, sufficiency, surrender No Comments
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who …
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 …
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 …
Finding The Depths of The Riches
No matter how great your pain or how confusing and intense your suffering, live in the mystery of My love. Struggle to trust Me. Do not live with the …
A Warrior’s Crisis at Christmas
Hold my faith for me! I cannot grasp it right now!~ An African mother in travail of childbirth, to her attendants. “I have cut off nations;their battlements are in …
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 …
