What goes through your mind when you are in a desperate situation or are in a season of suffering, and you cry out to God for help and deliverance, and He does not answer? Do you cry out louder? Do you feel abandoned? Do you despair? Do you think it’s not fair? Underserved? Do you become bitter or angry? Do you believe joy comes in the morning? All of us like comfy and cozy, right? No one likes to feel pain whether it’s emotional or physical. And yet, pain is something everyone of us experiences at some time or another Read More
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Behind the Scene Story of Pain and Hope
This is the true story of pain and hope behind the Christmas carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” It was March, 1863, in Cambridge, MA., when unbeknownst to his family, 18-year old Charles Appleton Longfellow, oldest of six children born to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Fannie Appleton, walked out of his house on Brattle Street to join President Lincoln’s Union Army to fight in the Civil War. Less than two years earlier, Charles’ mother died tragically when her dress caught fire. Her husband, Henry, tried desperately to extinguish the flames, but to no avail. She died the following Read More
Hope Found in the Chaos
Because of the recent tragedy in Las Vegas, I am posting a most insightful article by Casey Schutrop of WOW Ministries International – Hope Found in the Chaos TRAGEDY AND TRAUMA Still fresh, the day after the flood of news of the largest mass-shooting on U.S. soil, when the gates of hell rained open fire on people, the shock and ‘angst’ was growing within me. Hurting deeply for the lives lost, the injured and the families affected, my thoughts went to the ripple-effect of this tragedy as I tried to wrap my head around it – when our daily calendars Read More