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I’ve learned a lot about grief. I have seen how it attacks meaning and motivation. Grief creeps up and seizes a moment, an hour, an afternoon. I think it’s going to be like this for a while. Continue reading

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Honest thoughts about grief

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid…. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

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How should we understand death?

Consider ten truths about death revealed in the Bible. Continue reading

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Hope large enough to overcome death

Where is there hope sufficiently encompassing to enable us to know that all our pain and suffering has not been in vain? Continue reading

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Great leaders battle depression

Should the power of depression be more than ordinary, do to think that all is over with your usefulness. Continue reading

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Remedy for a heavy heart

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

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Regrets and Bad memories

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

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Learning the ways of God

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

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Seven purposes for pain

“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

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I will not remember your sins

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

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