Message of hope
Yesterday is a Memory, Tomorrow a Mirage
A Blessing for Loving What Is (instead of what could have been) by Kate Bowler in Good Enough: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Blessed are you who are attempting to love what is here, what is now. You who recognize the wonder and pain looking at life’s rearview mirror, at those things that are…
Read MoreCaring for Those Who Are Suffering
Excerpt from Where is God When It Hurts? by Philip Yancey How do I help someone else in need? Specifically, what can I do to alleviate their fear? I have learned that simple availability is the most powerful force we can contribute to help calm the fears of others. We rightly disparage Job’s three friends…
Read MoreMoving on with hands open and ready for the new
Excerpt from To Pause at the Threshold: Reflections on Living on the Border by Esther de Waal The psalms are the journey songs of the people…. Time and again they raised a fist to God and shouted angrily at him…. They are the songs of a people who were moving away from a known situation…
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