How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1John 3:1 We have forgotten ourselves. We who are children of the Great King wander drab streets downcast for reasons too great to number. We sometimes drift into the darkness […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Learning From Pain
C. S. Lewis wrote, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” For me the difficulty has always been in knowing exactly what I am to learn from the pain and what action to take. Some pain is to be endured and […]
If We Do Not Trust Him
If we do not trust Him there are no wise choices at all. There is only fending for ourselves—taking what we can while we can. To me, this sounds too much like atheism. And I am not an atheist. If we do not trust Him then there is no reason to hope. The Christian hope […]