Tag: adversity
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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…
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I Will Give Thanks
Psalm 9:1: I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. My small, simple soul loves this time of year. It holds the promise of the holidays without the urgent hustle and bustle that seems to arrive in December. I also think my soul has…
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Are These Dark and Difficult Paths the Lord’s?
Psalm 25:10: All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. When I read this verse, I am struck by its beauty. “All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness.” Yes, please. My small, simple soul conjures images of moonlit…
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She Walked with God
Genesis 5:24: Enoch walked with God and disappeared because God took him (CEB). The Bible speaks often of walking with God. In the Bible, a person’s “walk” was used as a way to describe how that person “did life.” Or we might say it was a metaphor for how they conducted themselves. So walking…
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Expect New Things
Isaiah 43:16-17“Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing…
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Don’t Put God in a Box
Isaiah 43:16-17“Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: ‘Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing…