Caregiver giving elderly woman a sponge bath

Compassionate care of Jesus in our suffering

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

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Finding courage! God is redeeming this suffering, purified gold in the fire

Are your hard days becoming hard years of a hard life? As we both look ahead, let’s find courage as we pray together, for God is redeeming our suffering.  God’s redeeming work of grace Father, I continually cherish Your rescuing gift of saving grace. My blessed Redeemer gave Himself for Read more

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God is with me as I wait

Do you feel like you’re constantly waiting for God to do something? Does your life feel like one giant waiting game? Suffering requires so much waiting, doesn’t it? My latest round of suffering has brought a newly convicting awareness of my needed mindset shift in the waiting. It started on Read more

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Lord, we thank You in our trials

As Thanksgiving approaches, we may not be gathering in typical ways. Our tables may not include those normally invited, we may be grieving as we miss those who used to fill the seats, we may not have enough money to feast. Our hearts may be too overwhelmed to feel like Read more

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