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Flashback Friday – Growing Through Suffering

I’m not sure they’re going to make it. Brittle. Barren. Lifeless. These are all words that describe my mums this spring. Confession time: I’m a mum-killer. I have bought several containers of mums each year with dazzling aspirations of planting them and having them return the next fall in vibrant shades of scarlet, goldenrod, andContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Growing Through Suffering”

Flashback Friday – 4 Practical Lessons from Job’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Have you ever had a day that goes something like this: You are trying to leave for work and the car won’t start despite your efforts to jump it. Great, you probably need a new battery (or worse!) and the bank account is already low. Next, you get a phone call from a loved oneContinue reading “Flashback Friday – 4 Practical Lessons from Job’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”

Growing Through Suffering

Flashback Friday – The God Who Sees Me

There she sat alone by the water. Given to a man, by no choice of her own, only to be used as part of a selfish plan. She received no protection or provision that normally comes from a union like this. She wasn’t loved. She wasn’t cherished. She wasn’t cared for. She was despised. Sure,Continue reading “Flashback Friday – The God Who Sees Me”

Flashback Friday – Depression: 10 Ways to Help Someone You Love

As someone who has personally struggled with depression and tried to minister to loved ones in the thick of it, I have experienced how difficult it can be to know what to do or what will help. It can be easy to throw up your hands in defeat. But before you do, know that thereContinue reading “Flashback Friday – Depression: 10 Ways to Help Someone You Love”

How We Can Forgive Past Hurts

We’ve all had someone cause us great hurt, pain, suffering, or injustice. Our knee-jerk reaction may be to make them pay, retaliate, or hope they get what’s coming to them. But Christians are called to forgive. That can be hard even for the smallest offenses, but what about when we have deep, lasting pain, trauma,Continue reading “How We Can Forgive Past Hurts”

Do Everything Without Complaining

“Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world . . .” (Philippians 2:14-15) We are a race of complainers. All we have to do to knowContinue reading “Do Everything Without Complaining”