I couldn't accept what I didn't understand, until suddenly I could. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: suffering
The Beautiful, Rigorous Practice of Christian Acceptance
We have to learn to hold difficult truths close to us in order to suffer well. [Click title to read more.]
Navalny, Suffering, and Turning To What I Can Tend
To become less, to serve and suffer, is in many places now the opposite of what I am told my faith should produce. I am told my faith can make me strong and grand, a loud voice, powerful, an authority. I am told that I can remake the world the way God wants it to be, surely? This sounds like a refrain of ancient darkness.
Two Years Of Doubt
We believe, until the cracks in the glass start to show. I had to ask God to help my unbelief. [Click title to read more.]
The Alternative to Offering Platitudes
Words can be cheap. But bearing witness isn't. [Click title to read more.]
Melancholia
We feel, in heart and memory, the break in the bone. [Click title to read more.]
On The Defeat of Death
Nothing about death is right or good, but facing it has made me understand the radical nature of what I believe. [Click title to read more.]
Lent and the Practice of Suffering
We must be careful when we speak of blessings through suffering. But God meets us in pain in ways He meets us nowhere else. [Click title to read more.]
Wait And See What I Will Do
In the Valley of Dry Bones, waiting is the best choice. [Click title to read more.]
The One Who Lifts My Head
Sometimes the right verse changes us in our brokenness. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 