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Staying Alive to Life When It Crushes You to Death
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 28: Staying Alive to Life When It Crushes You to DeathYesterday we learned that we follow a trillion different strategies for deadening our desires and shutting out the wail of our soul. What is...
Our God Is a Time God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 27: Our God Is a Time GodWhen we cry out to God; He promises His comfort. However, He does not promise “quick answers.” He is a “time God.” He does not come before time. He does not come after...
Hope Waits
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 26: Hope WaitsWhat about you? We’ve explored how we can journey with others helping them to wait on God. But what about you?Whether you are reflecting on your past suffering or experiencing...
Resting in God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 25: Resting in GodHow do you help others to wait on God? How do you help your hurting, grieving spiritual friends to find delay gratification and remember their future hope?There are many...
Clinging to God’s Rope of Hope
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 24: Clinging to God’s Rope of HopeWaiting is rooted in the Old Testament. The Prophets promised Israel that a better day was coming, later.The New Testament writers develop the waiting motif when...
Hope Waits
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 23: Hope WaitsYesterday’s journey ended with the Woman at the Well in a dilemma. God told her to wait.So what would “hope” look like in her immediate context? Hoping in God, she would choose...
When God Says “Wait”
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 22: When God Says “Wait”If the grief process was a direct journey, and it is not, then we would have arrived at the half-way point on our path. Sustaining has been the first “half” of our...
Finding God When We Can’t Find Answers
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 21: Finding God When We Can’t Find AnswersWhat about you? Yesterday we explored how we can journey with others helping them to move from depression, alienation, and separation to comfort through...
The Presence of God in the Presence of Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 20: The Presence of God in the Presence of SufferingHow do you help others to move from depression to comfort? How do you help your hurting, grieving spiritual friends to find God’s comforting...
Wreslting with God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 19: Wrestling with God Can we biblically support comfort as a legitimate stage of the grieving/healing process?Wrestling with GodJacob’s wrestling match with God certainly illustrates it. Recall...
