Category: Life & Suffering
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The Power of Routine in Healing and Spiritual Growth
Read more: The Power of Routine in Healing and Spiritual GrowthI am a creature of habit. I eat the same things for breakfast and lunch. I have the same pattern for each night before bed. I walk the same way every day. Thinking about it, it may seem boring, but I don’t have to think about those things. However, I have a little animal that…
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Finding Hope Amidst The Pain: A Journey
Read more: Finding Hope Amidst The Pain: A JourneyThere has been an advertisement going around our family. The place where we adopted Starburst is having a free adoption event for adult cats as they are overwhelmed. I keep looking at the swarm of cute faces and trying to decide which one I should go get, we need more animals in our lives. Now…
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Finding Refuge in God Amid Chronic Pain
Read more: Finding Refuge in God Amid Chronic PainI don’t really know that I have anything to add here to the conversation of suffering but for my mental health and desire to follow God’s prompting on my life, I am here to continue to tell my story. For the past few months/years/decades, I have dealt with a particular chronic migraine condition. Is that…
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Finding Peace in Uncertainty: Trusting God Through Grief
Read more: Finding Peace in Uncertainty: Trusting God Through GriefOn my way to work yesterday, I was trying to merge into the lane after an emergency vehicle passed. The guy behind me would not let me in. He nearly ran me off the road. My normal would be to get angry. Rather, I just began to cry. I realized very quickly I wasn’t crying…
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Finding Peace Amidst Grief
Read more: Finding Peace Amidst GriefIn worship, listening, praying my mind can become distracted. I readily admit this. I think that this is exactly where fear creeps into my life. As these past four weeks as fallen away, I’ve watched dad’s body fail. Each day I’ve guessed. I’ve prayed. I’ve wondered. Last week, we really thought this journey was about…
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When the darkness overwhelms
Read more: When the darkness overwhelmsEvery generation has said that this time, right now, is the very worst. We look around, marveling at the circumstances, high prices, political upheaval and even in our own lives, or in the lives of those we love. It can all be very overwhelming. Do you have a relative or friend who is ill? Or…
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Heaviness
Read more: HeavinessThings I am grateful for today. Hot coffee on a humid day. It’s just good stuff. Dogs who get their head stuck in paper bag and just stand there waiting for help. Laughter in my house, making meals together, rest. For food in our house, for a/c blasting throughout, for green leaves and grass, for…
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Three little verses
Read more: Three little versesYet another I never published, nearly a year ago… A few weeks ago, I sat with my dad while my mom went to an appointment. 2 weeks in a row my mother left us alone. Haha. We both napped, the house quiet, the dogs napping. I would doze and then check. Doze. Check. Perfect opportunity…
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Crying out pt 1
Read more: Crying out pt 1Another post never shared… After a weeks of watching my loved ones suffer because of grief at the loss of their loved ones, as well as take part in Holy Week, I start this post at the end. Well, what the disciples/followers thought was the end. Matthew 27:46-52 ”About the ninth hour Jesus cried out…
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Sleep
Read more: SleepWhat do you do when you can’t sleep? Do you get up and watch tv or look at your phone? Do you lay there praying for sleep to come again? I’ve written about this before, but last night was another rough night and I need this post today. Let us look to Jesus first. “It…
