Learning to Lament
You can stop guarding your pain, hurt, or past, and you can give it to God, and by faith trust Him to work on your behalf.
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Posted by Laurie Bennett | | Depression, Emotions, Faith, Fear, Grieving |
You can stop guarding your pain, hurt, or past, and you can give it to God, and by faith trust Him to work on your behalf.
Read MorePosted by Julie Ganschow | | Christian Growth, Emotions, Faith |
Foundational to any desire to change habits is the ability to preach truth to yourself and get beyond your feelings.
Read MorePosted by Jenna Bogard | | Depression, Emotions, Encouragement, Faith |
Think of the last time you were feeling “blue” or even depressed. Did you flip through pages of Scripture, looking for something to bring relief? You were hoping to feel better, but unfortunately, you closed your Bible and moved on with your day, trying to function with a heavy heart.
Read MorePosted by Jenna Bogard | | Anxiety, Bitterness, Emotions, Faith, Heart, Pain |
Pain is not something to fear or run from. Why? Because if we allow it, it will draw us closer to the most precious gift we have ever received, Christ.
Read MorePosted by Suzanne Holland | | Anger, Children, Contentment, Emotions, Older Women |
They’re tearing up the woods behind my house. My family moved into this house over 20 years ago, partly because of the thick, 50-acre woods behind it. It was a beautiful, lush patch of forest in the middle of the city, and we absolutely loved it. Now, they’re building a park there. Actually, there was already a park there, behind our stretch of woods, but it was quite neglected and had become a hangout for drug dealers and other “ne’er do wells”, as my grandmother would have called them. At first, when I heard they were going to expand the park, I was happy to hear that the neglected area would be revitalized, and a new park for families would take its place. At the inception of the project, the city assured the neighbors that there would be a generous stretch of the woods left so that our houses would still back up to the woods, and we would continue to enjoy the privacy to which we’d become accustomed.
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