I’ll never forget the compassionate care of the medical helper. She quietly entered my hospital room and touched my arm. “I’d like to give you a sponge bath.” After multiple nights of sweating through agonizing and intractable pain, after one of the most pain-full surgeries one can endure, her hushed Read more
I don’t talk much about my daily struggles with chronic illness and pain symptoms and all their wretched effects on everything, certainly not on social media or in my blogs. I constantly tell God all about them, crying to Him for help, relief, and wisdom to deal. Honest lament continues Read more
This week, I share a guest post from a subscriber to Singing Christ’s Hope. She wrote this beautiful poem in her anticipatory grief of a beloved friend preparing to meet Jesus face to face. She wrote about our homegoing, our unchanging hope in Christ in every loss we experience in Read more
Abba Father, what a comfort to know that Jesus is praying for me and every one of His beloved followers, as we suffer earthly trials. Along with Your permanent sealing and protection of a true believer by Your indwelling Holy Spirit, this is how we can cling to Your promised Read more
We’re moving to a smaller and more manageable one-story home this week. Our Lord made it clear to my husband and me that it’s time for this change. God has helped me quickly downsize and prune possessions from 39 years of marriage, raising children, and a multifaceted music career. The house Read more
Love Divine, all loves excelling, As I pray for my suffering sisters in Christ, Your Romans 8 love songs fill my heart. Your love is far stronger than our tribulation. It continues steadfast when our own weakens, in our constant distress, with every ache in this fallen world of sin. Read more
Blessed Father God, On this difficult day, it comforts me to know that Your strong believing children felt “so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself” (2 Cor. 1:8 ESV). Their affliction brought this on…and I’ve experienced the same. Focusing on God’s past blessings Turn me and Read more
Well-meaning and kind friends suggested they would pray for God’s “favor and blessing” so that my severe, chronic pain would disappear. So that the tribulation would end. So earthly suffering and affliction would stop. I silently cried an anguished response, “But I already HAVE His favor and blessing…because I’m in Read more
Our suffering Savior has been giving me solace and strength in my own suffering by studying the Psalms as He might have sung them. Because…He did sing them in His earthly life. I wonder if He was comforted and strengthened in knowing that He was fulfilling prophecy as He hung Read more
When I fear my faith will fail, Christ will hold me fast; When the tempter would prevail, He can hold me fast! (“He Will Hold Me Fast,” Habershon, A. R., 1906) I wonder if Ada wrote these lyrics into her deep suffering, so difficult that she feared she might leave Read more
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