Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Anne Lamott “Trust for a miracle with all your heart” is not exactly what Solomon wrote. He did write, however, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart” (Proverbs 3). Trusting in him helps me live peacefully …
BE BRAVE AND TRUST THAT GOD IS GOOD
[This is the tenth of fourteen passages that saved my life a few years ago.] Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight. 1 Chronicles 19:13 When I discovered this small passage, sort of in passing, …
DON’T BRING MATCHES
[This is number nine of fourteen passages that sustained me in my dark palce a few years ago.] 10 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD …
Still more on forgiveness (forgiving God)
Heaven renders unanswerable "why" questions irrelevant and inspires us to live with them in hope. Gregory A. Boyd Lord, if this is the way you treat your friends, no wonder you don’t have many! Mother Teresa Back at the beginning of the bleakness, over Chinese food my friend Joe asked me if my faith in God …
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Is It OK to feel this way? (part two)
You saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul… I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. I have become like …
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