The Lord sometimes uses sorrow in our lives to deepen us, Miss Lucy says. This is one of those times. Why do we have to be deep? I wonder aloud. Miss Lucy looks at me as if she’s never considered that...
Thank goodness God is still faithful even when we’re faithless.
Starting immediately, thank God for every gift He gives, from those as small as a whiff of honeysuckle or jasmine in your backyard, to the realization that you just had a few moments without back pain...
Someone really wise once told me that even Christians aren’t immune to tragedy. That we can’t use this fallen world to gauge our value to God.
Maybe we all need a glimpse of life without someone we love once in a while, just to teach us not to take them for granted.
He was bitter about many things, but not about God. He still prayed constantly. Still went to church. Still reminded her that God loved her and was watching.
Everyone here is in a lot of pain, and as they say, hurting people hurt people. Part of your recovery
Ben’s chances in the campaign.
We — you and I — are fearfully and wonderfully made. His works are wonderful (Psalm 139:1 – 5, 13 – 14).
This is all so tangled and so impossible, but God did the impossible tonight. He does it all the time. I’m so overcome by it that I can’t formulate an elaborate prayer. I simply whisper, Thank you.
They send you to places where bombs explode like jack-in-the-boxes, blowing your friends to pieces before your eyes. Then they punish you when you can’t stop thinking about it.
She pulls upright, wiping her face 'But that’s another one of those clichés I don’t get. The light. I feel it sometimes. It makes sense that you have to beat back the darkness, but I just don’t unders...
Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. Therefore, putting aside all filthiness and all that remains of wickedn...