Tag: suffering
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And I know He watches me…
I don’t like birds. May seem like a random bit of information. And, it could even seem a little strange, since as a child I used to watch them. Study them. Wonder where they were going. Had been. What their behavior said about them. However, I also remember walking to the school bus and getting…
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He didn’t “deserve” it either…
“Does it really even pay to be nice?” This is how the conversation started with a fellow, empathetic friend of mine. Going over the many times we have felt like doormats in the last few months. You know what doormats are, right? They get stepped on. That’s what we had felt like. We had given…
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Keep on keeping on…
I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past, and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. …
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Lord, I Am Just Worn!
I’m tired and worn. My heart is heavy. -Tenth Avenue North I have shared before how much I may seem to thrive off this crazy ability to manage an insanely busy schedule. This is something many believe I can make look easy. Juggling the hats labeled mom, taxi driver, student, assistant, pastor, mentor, wife, and counselor,…
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A Purpose Through the Pain
“God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His son.” -Jerry Bridges This will be a hard post for me to write. Even though I have shared many struggles, like those with my children, and even shared a…
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Holding On Through the Why’s of Life
O Lord, why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide when I am in trouble? Psalm 10:1 Why, God? Why me? I admit it. I have asked this question of God a time or two hundred, just as I am sure many believers do. At times we don’t understand why a God who…
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No One Suffers Alone
“Yet, I am not alone, for my Father is with me.” John 16:32 “No one seems to understand!” Oh, the many times I have thought or spoken these words in the middle of my struggles, and all the situations life throws at me. Oh, the many times I have thought: “No one really gets it!”…
Grace N Grounds 