In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple” (Is. 6:2-3). Memory often obscures the things that bring us pain or discomfort. The blessing of forgetfulness hides the pain beneath the shinier, …
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 …
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 …