Category: Trusting God in the Midst of Suffering

A Life of Praise

Every day I will praise you. I will praise your name continually.  The Lᴏʀᴅ is great and certainly worthy of praise.  No one can fathom his greatness.  –Psalm 145:2–3 I remember one of the hardest times in my life.  It felt like I would never hope again and I was

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Grateful Hearts

Sometimes kids are the best teachers. An innocent bedtime prayer will go something like, “Thank you for Coco (our dog), and for space to run, and legs, and shoes, and sunshine, and that ladybug I found on the leaf, and for the leaf, and all the animals, and . .

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Turning Lament into Dancing

2021 was the hardest year of my life. It was a time when I experienced loss in many ways and felt the stinging pain of loneliness. The number one used phrase written in all my journals was this: I can’t tell anyone. I am alone. No one knew I was

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This I Know

“Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so…” My earliest memory as a child at Sunday school is being taught this lovely, simple little song. Simple and yet profound. Foundational, unshakeable, unchanging truth that I continue to need to be reminded of, especially when life gets

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Hope Unseen

“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.” –Romans 8:26 The most significant moments of growth in my walk with God have come from the deepest valleys of

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What’s Coming is Better Than What Has Been

“For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.” –Romans 8:18 How do we live in the tension of the hard things we go through in life and the beautiful hope and expectation of what’s to come? The

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A Purpose to Suffering

Over the last few months, many of our friends and family members have walked through intense loss and suffering. The last few years have been difficult for many, and my guess is that you’re in a similar situation. There are very few who have been left unscathed. Whether suffering has

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Great is His Faithfulness

“But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope: The Lᴏʀᴅ’s loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end. They are fresh every morning; your faithfulness is abundant! “My portion is the Lᴏʀᴅ,” I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.”  —Lamentations 3:21–24 I

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The Holiness of God

Lament is a powerful practice. As we express our pain to God, we also declare our faith in Him. When we cry out to Him, we recognize the way sin has caused pain and suffering in the world He created. Lament is a way to express our faith in Him,

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How Long, O Lord?

We packed the car in sunny South Florida before lunchtime and started the long drive to visit Aunt Beth in the mountains. Not long into the drive, I heard a loud voice growling out of a tiny body strapped into the car seat in the rear. “This is taking too

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