God is good and life is difficult. The life of faith is lived between these two realities.
Many times in our own lives, we reflect the hard truth of that statement in whatever distressful situation we may find ourselves. Whether it is the loss of a loved one and the grief is overwhelming, children or grandchildren gone astray, broken relationships, illness and the dreaded news that it is terminal, a financial earthquake that rattles our being into shambles, or our recruitment into a spiritual battle, we need courage. We need hope. We need God.
Category: trust
Leap of Death
You raise your eyebrows in apprehension as a man with a parachute strapped to his back takes a running leap. He pulls the ripcord and his canopy opens displaying its many colorful stripes. On each stripe you notice the name of a good work the man apparently had accomplished in his lifetime.
Wanting and Wishing Won’t Make it Happen!
I went to a community college and took every writing class available; I joined a writer’s group; I attended writing workshops. I learned the mechanics of writing, but to add substance to my writing, I had to go to the Lord.