Our challenges always build. A ninety-five-year-old man sits in his chair with a wandering mind because a century cannot pass without many …
Pain/Suffering
It had all been taken and hung on a tree
He was my expert whenever some adventure story required knowledge of planes. He was a man who faced bullets and bombs and storms, who was …
GAINING TROUGH LOSING
Remember when I said suffering is having what you don't want and wanting what you don't have? Subtract your wants and you'll have …
THE PSALMS: A FABRIC OF FEELINGS
Emotions are one of the least reliable yet most influential forces in our lives. One day we are hopeful; the next, we hate. Despair at one …
He is the answer and we need him
“In order to suffer without dwelling on our own affliction,” Thomas Merton once contemplated, “we must think about a greater affliction, and …
Sunday’s coming
Highlight Longings: God created us for Paradise, but we now live in a desert. So we thirst (John 7:37-39), we suffer (John 16:33), and we …
Remember Again
It's another way of saying: Never doubt in the darkness what you once believed in the light. When hardship settles in to stay, dark and …
Bitterness and Simple Faith
She realized her seething hatred was just as heinous, just as nauseating as the sins committed against her. She was no better than her …
to embrace you with is love
But it doesn't stop there. Can the Father turn a deaf ear to the pleas of his own Son? (If Jim can’t, you can bet God can’t. And if he can, …
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