Category: Suffering

Hello, it’s been awhile.  Not much, how bout you?  Its been such a long time and I really do miss your smile… As it seems, I am back from the dead.   Well, not exactly dead, as I have been breathing Him in and out… taking a rest.  You know that place you crawl into to…
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Deep places do inspire deep devotion and the more distressed we are, the more we realize there is only one to whom we can appeal. We cry to God alone. Diamonds sparkle most amid the darkness. Psa 130:1 From the depths of my despair I call to you, LORD. The verb “depths” means to be…
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Goodbyes are important to us. We want goodbyes to be perfect. Oh, we as humans have such great expectations about how goodbying should go. But if we look hard at the phenomena of goodbying or a good goodbye, the best goodbyes are not expressed in words, but in silence. In silence we can express a…
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Season last, long past showers of leaves swirling in kaleidoscope colors and after warm autumn breezes turn bitterly cold, I wrote about Advent; with candles aglow, meteors blazing and Italian Renaissance artists creating beautiful frescos to encourage us from below, to look upward. Many of us during this season, hold dear thoughts and imaginings that…
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“Who doesn’t watch the news and howl? Who doesn’t breathe through wounds and grieve for what was or dreamed and isn’t? How do you sit around a table and bow your head in thanks when parts of this world and bits of you are somewhere crushed?…giving thanks is only this: making the canyon of pain…
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