by DB | Oct 26, 2020 | Bible Literacy, Emotions, Suffering
I don’t feel like writing, but I will. I will sort through a bit of my own chaos and share it with you as a way of processing what I know will heal but hasn’t yet. Tonight my oldest bumped his head on something. The source of injury remains undetermined,...
by DB | Oct 11, 2020 | Emotions, Prayer, Suffering
My husband walked in to find me sitting in the bathroom holding my knees as tightly as I could trying not to let the wracking sobs escape. I was broken mentally because I was broken physically. Others all around me had become pregnant and delivered children but here I...
by DB | Oct 5, 2020 | Emotions, Suffering
Merriam-Webster’s Thesaurus lists the following words related to alone:unattended, unchaperonedforlorn, friendlesscloistered, disassociated, hermetic (also hermetical), insulated, isolate, isolated, remote, retired, secluded, withdrawnquarantined, segregated,...
by DB | Sep 28, 2020 | Christian Service, Suffering
Have you ever watched a storm roll in? When I was in college, I spent an entire summer working with a ministry in the Smokey Mountains. I learned quickly to carry a poncho on the even the most beautiful days, because the question was not if it would rain, but when....
by DB | Aug 31, 2020 | Emotions, Salvation, Suffering
Why do bad things happen to good people? I’ve never liked that question, but it is important. It makes sense that we ask it. When bad things happen to good people, it feels unjust. God is just. (Job 4:17) He loves justice. (Psalm 11:7, 33:5, 99:4) We are made in...
by DB | Jun 5, 2020 | Bible Literacy, Suffering
Originally published 3.28.2020 What if God doesn’t save us? “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”...
