A personal log of loss and pain can either soften us toward our travel companions or callous our hearts.
Tag: sorrow
How we respond to loss – self-inflicted or otherwise – is critical to the outcome of our life.
Pause with me for a moment and revel in the reality of the God of heaven slowing down to sit with us in our sorrow. Note, He is not inexperienced with suffering: Jesus has walked on earth in flesh and subjected the Godhead to the excruciation of temptation, the trauma of sin and even death. God is not too far-off to understand or too insulated to empathize.
Today I need a fresh revelation of the goodness of the Lord right here on earth.
“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.” (John 14:18 NIV) This scripture turned up in my regular reading plan this morning. There are no coincidences in the Kingdom. This was my keeping verse in the long night after my father…