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Trust and Rest
As you watch God work in your life, bring you comfort, carry you, encourage you, and love you in a way you’ve never known before, your ability to trust will grow. The struggle will diminish and His peace will flood your soul.
Don’t Lose Heart
Are you battling discouragement? Focus on Jesus and you will find strength and encouragement to face the hardship of today.
The Discovery of a Lifetime
You can grieve from a “place of rest” knowing that your Father is holding you, protecting you, and guiding you. You are safe in His hand.
Exhaustion of the Soul
I want to challenge you today that there is only one place to turn when you are in this place; only One who can relieve the deepest exhaustion of the soul.
Facing a New Year
As we enter a new year, we can fully trust God with our lives. He will bring beauty from ashes and make new streams in the desert. He will comfort and strengthen us, and fill us with His peace and joy.
The Ache Remains
Don’t lose heart. Although the ache remains, you are being held by the One who loves you most.
Regular People
As you continue to trust Jesus through this painful chapter of your life, you will find that He will sustain you. When you cry out to Him in lament, He hears you and He cares. You are so deeply loved by the One who created you.
Discerning Truth
One day we’ll lay down our armor at the feet of Jesus, but until then, let’s put on the full armor, trust our Savior, and live our lives to glorify Him.
Learning to Wait
Is waiting really doing nothing? Actually, the word “wait” is a verb! It’s an action verb; something that we choose to do; and a difficult action to take sometimes.
Standing on the Promises
Through this grief journey I have discovered that the promises of God never fail, never change, and never disappoint. Everything He promises happens just like He says.
Who Needs Lament?
Who needs lament? Not just bereaved parents but EVERY BELIEVER! All of us face hardship, pain, and suffering because we live in a broken world. When Jesus returns or we go to Heaven, we won’t face these things anymore, but for now, we all do. Understanding the beautiful gift of lament can be life-changing and life-giving.
A Buoy That Holds
Have you experienced earth-shattering, beyond belief storms yet in your life? If not, you will. The longer you live, the more you will experience these times of hardship, heartache, illness, pain, death, and overwhelming grief. The storms of earthly life unleash with great fury.
Only Jesus
Whether He provides healing while we are still on earth or carries us through suffering and we are healed in Heaven, He loves us. He is with us. He will never leave us.
International Bereaved Mother’s Day
Why is this day important? That likely stands without a need for explanation. Having a day ahead of time to remember our children who no longer reside on earth acknowledges the importance of their lives, and acknowledges the pain of missing them.
“What! You too?”
CS Lewis wrote, “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’”
The In-Between Time
They didn’t realize that the resurrection was coming. They didn’t know this was just the “in-between time.”
Held by the Master of All
Through the storms of life, and we will all experience more of them, we can rest, we can stand firm, and we can have peace and joy in all circumstances, knowing that we are held by the Master of all.