Use your experiences with pain to help others
“If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient...
Reorder Priorities
As we fully pursue the emotions in times of suffering, our minds engage in a way that causes us to see life from a new perspective. ...
Process the emotions of pain all the way through
The typical internal reaction to pain and suffering is to do whatever it takes to cause the pain and suffering to go away. This natural...
Approach and express emotions
Seasons of suffering trigger strong emotions. Prolonged seasons of pain cause the emotions to seem like a tidal wave sweeping into one’s...
Find Safe Places to Process Pain
Today we will see how Job found a safe place to process the pain as the first marker in his pathway to experience and understand God more...
Growth Through Pain
Pain. Suffering is an inescapable part of life on earth. Pain brought on by our own doing or pain that is not a result of anything that...
"Furnace Time"
Yesterday my wife and I were listening to the Our Daily Bread devotional together as we started our day. It was based on the familiar...
All Welcome
Human status seemed to be of no concern to God the Father when deciding who to invite to witness the arrival of His Son on earth. After...
Bringing Friends to the Healer
Four persistent friends, a crowded house, a hole in the roof, and a forgiving Healer together led up to a lame man walking out of the...
Broken Baby Jesus Doll
Seventeen and a half years ago, we packed up a household of belongings and moved. As I organized boxes, I packed fragile items carefully...
