[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”suffering”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I’m developing a capacity for suffering, for losing people I love, and yet I know deep down that I will be okay. In fact, I know it because of the suffering and loss. I know you’ll be okay too. I want to share with you how I’ve come to know this. AContinue reading “On Suffering, Loss, and Being Okay”
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Sermon: Don’t Miss the Horizon
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] This is the text of a sermon I preached on July 27, 2014. [Audio here] Good morning, nice to be with you again. Sorry I had to bail last week. As most of you know by now, a really, really important person in my life died 2 weeks ago this comingContinue reading “Sermon: Don’t Miss the Horizon”
Eight Things to Do to Work Through a Depressive Episode
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I am depressed. (Are you? Find out here.) I don’t just mean sad, down in the dumps, etc. I mean I am struggling, right now, with a major depressive episode. I take medication for it. It’s an ongoing reality in my life. Especially now. I’m sleeping 12-16 hours a night andContinue reading “Eight Things to Do to Work Through a Depressive Episode”
Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] My post idea today comes from a reader, who emailed a heartbreaking note to me. She attached the quote at the top of this post, and wrote: I came across this quote not too long ago and it stopped me in my tracks. As a teenager I was sexually abused by [identity clipped] for [lengthContinue reading “Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering”
Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] My original post on this topic concluded with these lines: Both living in truth and living in falsehood bring suffering. In my next post, I’ll talk about why the suffering that truth brings is better. Have you ever had a terrible, miserable, horrible, awful experience that, when it’s over, you lookContinue reading “Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps”
How I Suffer and Keep Trusting God
Someone struggling with serious health problems wrote to me today and said, “Dave, some of the stuff you’ve faced with your MS is horrific. How in the world do you keep trusting God and believing he loves you?” What a great question. With her permission I have reprinted my answer, below, because I wonder if itContinue reading “How I Suffer and Keep Trusting God”
Four ways we miss love
On February 10 I posted about how some people were not comfortable with how I speak of God, because my language isn’t traditional enough and doesn’t reflect enough orthodoxy. This morning I received a beautiful, if short-lived apology from one of those to whom I had been referring in that post. Only it wentContinue reading “Four ways we miss love”
The Universe Arcs Towards Grace
Through my recent posts on this blog, others who are suffering, some more deeply than I, have connected and sent me questions, looking for encouragement in their own struggles. The post below is a response I gave today to a woman with stage four cancer who wrote to ask, “how do you NOT give up?” Continue reading “The Universe Arcs Towards Grace”
Sick of Cancer
Have you ever been in that place where you seem to be surrounded with horrific things? As I write, two of my closest friends on the planet are fighting cancer. This morning I got word that an amazing young man with cancer, for whom I had done premarital counseling and then his wedding in 2010,Continue reading “Sick of Cancer”
God’s Love, prt. 3
Remember, Jesus himself invited the comparison of God’s love to the love of human parents for our children. If you extend your love to your children constantly, every second, for a specified number of years, are you then justified in killing or torturing them for having not responded? Could you even desire to? IfContinue reading “God’s Love, prt. 3”
Temp Arbor 