Tag: suffering and trials
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What it Really Means to Have Courage
We all need courage to face the world around us, it just might require letting go of what we think courage is and taking up the ways He leads us down.
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Finding Jesus When You’ve Been Hurt by the Church
What do you do when you’ve been hurt by a church and those within it?
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When Your Dreams Fall Apart
There is pain in giveness, an ache in surrender. To give up what we desperately long for, and hand it over to the One who longs for us.
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The Space In between
For though we are facing a world of endless tribulation, it is a world overcome, a world overtaken, a world ever-conquered
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Take This Cup
Perhaps the goal is not to convince God through tear-filled pleas to remove our burdens. Perhaps the goal is to find God in those burdens.
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I Am With You Always
Don’t you feel it? Behind the Christmas lights and carols and decking of halls. Don’t you feel the longing in your soul for the night to finally be pierced?
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The Valley
You know when you almost have a wreck? You slam on the brakes or swerve into the other lane, narrowly avoiding a vehicular disaster. In a flash you can see the possibilities of how that scenario could have unfolded. Your heart skips and your seatbelt locks. For a few moments after, you heart rate remains elevated as…
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Uprooted
Jesus—scoffed at, betrayed, hurt by those closest to Him. Jesus—far from a stranger to suffering and shame. He reminded me of His broken body, of His tears, of His shame. Because we do not have a Savior unable to sympathize with our pain. He took on our pain.
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Driveway Lament
Lamenting is different than complaining. Lamenting is grief voiced aloud. Where in complaining there is no hope found, in lamenting there is. Lamenting is an admission of inadequacy and inability to be okay on our own. Lamenting is how we rely on God alone in the darkest places. It’s knowing who you are in Christ,…
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You’re Still God
“Being in the wilderness makes you even more grateful for the oasis. Hunger leads to thankful satisfaction. Your joy today is a harvest from seeds planted during times of despair. Let this be an altar of remembrance in your heart.”
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Small Hope
I watched friends go out, date, start college, finish college, but I was stuck. Frozen in time, unable to move from the agonizing state I was in. By the time I was admitted I was beginning to lose hope.
A story of grace 