Tag: adversity
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Broken and Brave
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). We all have strengths and gifts…
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Beautiful Words of Counsel
“Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors” (Psalm 119:24). My small, simple soul was cranky. Maybe feeling a little sorry for itself. Unpleasant news and life events had way-laid my laid-back summer. Words were spoken that made me feel defeated. And I let my feelings speak into my days and found myself…
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Light Has a Name
John 1:5 Inspired Are you walking in darkness, my friend, unable to see where to place your feet let alone what might lie ahead? A Light shine in the darkness. Is your vision dimmed and blurred by tears making it impossible to find your way? A Light shine in the darkness. Do worry and heartache…
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A Battle Cry of Truth
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you” (Jermiah 31:3b.) Satan has been whispering his same old lies to me lately. Well, that was awkward. Did you really think you fit in? Maybe they want what you have to offer, but they don’t really want you.…
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When Life Feels Unsettled
Matthew 7:24-27: “And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.” I’ve been waking up feeling off-kilter lately. I find myself caught in a strange season. It is filled with emotional highs and lows,…
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Finding God’s Truth in the Turmoil
My small, simple soul has been dealing with a big, daunting issue. An emotional issue that has been making me feel all the wrong kinds of small. Instead of small and safe in my Father’s embrace, I feel small and vulnerable. Small and not enough. I’m sure you have faced your own big life…
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Does Our Grief Matter?
You have kept count of my tossing, put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Psalm 56:8 Have you shed silent tears this week? Or perhaps your grief was messy and loud—a full on “ugly-cry.” Or maybe your grief has been too deep for tears, but rather has been a hidden,…
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God is Bigger Than My Overwhelm
“The heavens were made by the word of the Lord, and all the stars, by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the water of the sea into a heap; he puts the depths into storehouses. Let the whole earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. …
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Praise in the Pain?
“The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21b, NKJV). My heart ached. My eyes were tear-swollen. It felt like I couldn’t breathe, and I honestly wasn’t sure there was any sort of happy ending in my future. But still I whispered the words, “Blessed…
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A Book as Yet Unwritten
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years” (Genesis 1:14). As I sat at the end of 2023, the new year rolled out in front of me like a…