Category: Life & Suffering

I listened to a part of one of Tim Keller’s sermons on Job. Often times we wonder, given the severity of Job’s words, at times towards God, how do we get to the end of Job and hear God say: “After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,…

Not sure how to start this, so i will just start typing and see how I get there. Trusting the Spirit to lead and to guide. I follow many people who have chronic pain, they provide suggestions, community, and language for a diagnosis that is hard to pinpoint. Fibromyalgia. A way these accounts help me…

I spend way too much time in the what ifs of my life or my loved ones. As I have been studying Acts these past weeks, it occurs to me that Paul doesn’t seem to spend much time there. Paul enters each city, ready for the discussion and knowing the suffering may come. In fact,…

My mind is swirling this morning. I’m really supposed to be studying Acts. That’s where my Bible study has me. Or, in Matthew with the questions Jesus asks. Except today, I want to look towards the Scriptures and find questions the authors asks of God. I’m not sure where in my history I thought it…

Today, I am sitting in my room and the sunshine is streaming through the window, highlighting the folds of my blanket and the mess i have created. Yesterday was a rough day with pain and i should go back and reread what i posted yesterday. Haha. Here’s what I am learning over and over again,…

These last few days have been a bit of a fog physically. Mentally. I have so much on my heart that I don’t want to forget. All that the Lord is teaching me and growing me. Let’s start with Sunday. Is that only yesterday? Oy. I’ve been reading in Acts for a study I’m in.…

Yesterday was a day riddled with tension for me. One thing after another just piled up and reckoned with my heart. I was taking my stress on, other’s stress, worrying, fretting and all of a sudden, I realized my shoulders were up by my ears. I came home from the day hoping for dinner and…

The day I had my stroke was a day like many others. I had woken up with a terrible headache, but I thought, i need to do this or that. I was pushing myself to do more than my body could do. If I am honest, there was a part of me wondering if I…

Today is one of those days, awake from the pain most of the night. Honestly, friend, I share this because my pain is physical but your pain may be emotional or based on circumstances that swirl about you without your control. Or it could be a combination of all. Another pain is the knowledge that…

So, I may have bitten off more than i can chew. I’m a little hyper focused when it comes to getting my walk in daily. I plan it out the day before. Know when i’m going to go. checking the weather, etc. Problems arise when pain is elevated and takes me more time to move…