Another approach, available to Christians, which God invites, practically begs, us to use is seeking Him for supernatural comfort. It's not, I should point out, praying that He'll make our circumstances better, or even eliminate the damage done: He'll simply comfort us. My model for this is Jesus, who suggested in the garden of Gethsemane that maybe God not allow Him to die, which of course wasn't possible. That wasn't the plan. Why did He even ask? I believe He didn't expect a change in circumstances, but merely wanted comfort. Remember, when He died He cried out, "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" It had been God's comfort He'd been depending on all along. It was a shock not to have it, even if only for a few moments.
And maybe these women will need to do something like this.
Beautiful words, lovingly written. Coincidentally, I rewatched Tombstone last night (RIP Val Kilmer!). At the end of the movie, Doc is on his deathbed when Wyatt expresses his desire to just live a normal life. Doc responds, "There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it."
I recently had a job interview where the employer asked for an example of a workplace situation where I had demonstrated resilience. It’s not a word that you hear much anymore, but it certainly describes what our grandparents needed to deal with hardships that were mostly unimaginable to us moderns. I do feel that it was required to a lesser extent to get through the nightmarish idiocy of Covid masking, lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
The most wonderful and uniquely female gift God gave women was to bear children and we turned that into a disease. Marriage, God’s picture to us of His relationship to the church, we redefined, scorned and in many ways abandoned. We have a Supreme court justice who doesn’t even know what a woman is and men are raping women in female prisons and stealing their accomplishments in sports, so I guess it’s no surprise. God’s ways are always best and when we “do what is right in our own eyes” there is hell to pay. We are only beginning to reap the whirlwind. Praying for true revival.
Another approach, available to Christians, which God invites, practically begs, us to use is seeking Him for supernatural comfort. It's not, I should point out, praying that He'll make our circumstances better, or even eliminate the damage done: He'll simply comfort us. My model for this is Jesus, who suggested in the garden of Gethsemane that maybe God not allow Him to die, which of course wasn't possible. That wasn't the plan. Why did He even ask? I believe He didn't expect a change in circumstances, but merely wanted comfort. Remember, when He died He cried out, "my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" It had been God's comfort He'd been depending on all along. It was a shock not to have it, even if only for a few moments.
And maybe these women will need to do something like this.
Beautiful words, lovingly written. Coincidentally, I rewatched Tombstone last night (RIP Val Kilmer!). At the end of the movie, Doc is on his deathbed when Wyatt expresses his desire to just live a normal life. Doc responds, "There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it."
Kind, wise words.
I recently had a job interview where the employer asked for an example of a workplace situation where I had demonstrated resilience. It’s not a word that you hear much anymore, but it certainly describes what our grandparents needed to deal with hardships that were mostly unimaginable to us moderns. I do feel that it was required to a lesser extent to get through the nightmarish idiocy of Covid masking, lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
The most wonderful and uniquely female gift God gave women was to bear children and we turned that into a disease. Marriage, God’s picture to us of His relationship to the church, we redefined, scorned and in many ways abandoned. We have a Supreme court justice who doesn’t even know what a woman is and men are raping women in female prisons and stealing their accomplishments in sports, so I guess it’s no surprise. God’s ways are always best and when we “do what is right in our own eyes” there is hell to pay. We are only beginning to reap the whirlwind. Praying for true revival.