by Bob | Apr 1, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Hope, Waiting on God
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...
by Bob | Mar 29, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Hope, Waiting, Waiting on 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...
by Bob | Mar 28, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Hope, Waiting, Waiting on God
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...
by Bob | Mar 27, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Healing, Hope, Waiting, Waiting on God
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...
by Bob | Mar 26, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Healing, Hope, Waiting on God
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...
by Bob | Nov 26, 2008 | Beyond the Suffering, God's Love, Hope, Slavery
The Bitter Waters and the God of All ComfortAP science writer, Randolph E. Schmid reported on November 25, 2008, that Marine archaeologists had found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors...
