Tag Archives: Loss

Remedy for a heavy heart

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Wisdomforlife

A heavy heart finds comfort and relief when we turn to the worship of praise. We have a great example of this from the disciple whom Jesus loved. Continue reading →

Posted in Cross of Jesus, Death of Christ, discouraged, Discouragement, Fear of death, feeling hopeless, Grieving, Hope?, Jesus Christ, Joy, Praise, Sadness, Salvation | Tagged Discouragement, Fear, heavy heart, Loss, praise, Sadness | Leave a comment

Regrets and Bad memories

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Wisdomforlife

No matter the cause of your pain or who caused it, the healing process has common stages. Continue reading →

Posted in 18 Year factor, Wisdom | Tagged bad memories, Childhood trauma, horrible upbringing, Loss | 1 Comment

Learning the ways of God

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Wisdomforlife

Is your trouble a sense of failure? The knowledge of having made some significant mistake? Go back to God; his restoring grace waits for you. Continue reading →

Posted in Failure, God, God as Potter, God's Patience, God's control, God's Heart, God's Love, God's power, God's Will, Godly sorrow, Walking with God, Will of God, Wisdom | Tagged Failure, Forgiveness, Loss | 1 Comment

Seven purposes for pain

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Wisdomforlife

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (The Problem of Pain, C. S. Lewis). Continue reading →

Posted in Pain, Suffering, Trials | Tagged Loss, pain, Suffering, Trials | 2 Comments

I will not remember your sins

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Wisdomforlife

You are living by the promise of I John 1:9 when you refuse to hold against yourself the sin God does not hold against you. Continue reading →

Posted in Anxiety, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Comfort, Confession, Conflict, Divorce, Elentics, Encouragement, Failure, Faith, Forgiveness, Freedom, God's Patience, God's Heart, God's Love, Godly sorrow, Gospel, Grace, Grieving, Guilt, Hope? | Tagged Confession, Doubt, Failure, Feeling guilty, Forgiveness, Loss | 1 Comment

Memorial to my Dad

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Wisdomforlife

I couldn’t believe that I might lose two of the men who had most influenced my life on the same day. My father lasted four days and passed away. Continue reading →

Posted in Family life, Fathers, Life of a pastor, Personal thoughts | Tagged Death, Fathers, Loss | 1 Comment

God’s purposes in our trials

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Wisdomforlife

Perhaps he means to strengthen us in patience, good humor, compassion, humility, or meekness, by giving us some extra practice in exercising these graces under especially difficult conditions. Perhaps he has new lessons in self-denial and self-distrust to teach us. Perhaps he wishes to break us of complacency, or unreality, or undetected forms of pride and conceit. Continue reading →

Posted in J. I. Packer, Wisdom | Tagged Grief, J. I. Packer, Loss, Suffering, Trials | 1 Comment

When life hurts

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Wisdomforlife

Are you wrestling through dark nights of the soul concerning how God relates to the hardships of life? When bad things happen to us that we cannot directly control and that prayer will not immediately change… Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse, Bitterness, Broken Relationships, Christian worldview, Comfort, Crisis, Difficult people, Discipline, Discouragement, Divorce, Dysfunctional, Emotions, Evil in the world, God's control, God's Heart, God's Love, God's Protection, God's Will, Grace, Jealousy, Joseph's story, Pain, Problem of evil, Questioning God, Resurrection, Sadness, Seeking God, Sick, Slandered, Spiritual growth, Spiritual inventory, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Trials, Wisdom | Tagged Hardships, Loss, Questioning God, Suffering, Trials | 2 Comments

Wisdom on suffering

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Wisdomforlife

“Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge” (Psalm 62:8). Dick Keyes “The Bible does not give us a quick and easy answer to why God allows evil to continue … Continue reading →

Posted in Discouragement, Earthquakes, Eternal life, Evil in the world, Faith, Fear of death, Fear of God, God's Patience, God's control, God's Heart, God's Protection, God's Will, Grieving, Hope?, Hurricanes, Loss, Mistreated, Origin of Sin, Pain, Prison, Restoration, Sadness, Sovereignty, Spiritual transformation, Suffering, Suicide, Tornado, Trials, Tsunami, Violence, Weather, Will of God, Wisdom, Worldview | Tagged Death, Loss, Sadness, Sin, Suffering, Tornado, Where is God in tragedy? | 1 Comment

A song for those who are suffering

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Wisdomforlife

“Why?” “The question that is never far away. But healing doesn’t come from the explained.” What a great truth about the place where ”the hurt and the Healer collide!“ This is the place “where Glory meets my suffering.“ I love so many lines … Continue reading →

Posted in Anxiety, Assurance, Broken Relationships, Comfort, Depression, Despair, Discouragement, Encouragement, Evil in the world, Grieving, Loss, Love, Mistreated, Pain, Sadness, Suffering, Wisdom | Tagged Despair, Loss, Suffering | 1 Comment