If suffering is actually a vital part of human development - and Paul says it is - why don’t we quit beating ourselves up for experiencing it.
Maybe you don’t need someone to fix you. Maybe you need someone to walk with you through it, helping you keep your eyes on the prize.
Read MoreWe run harder and faster, furiously comparing, plotting and driving ourselves - to what? To that place where we have no worries? Sorry to tell you but that place doesn’t exist out there - it’s an inside job.
But when we choose to go placidly amid the noise and haste, we find God doing the work and not us, and He has been all along.
I forget this. Sometimes it takes a migraine to remind me.
Read MoreOn Friday, I was lying on my couch icing a pulled psoas muscle and crying when Sam called and said,
"Hey, a poster tube came in the mail for you."
I stopped crying, bolted upright, cried again and said, "there's only one place sending me a poster."
Sure enough, in the tube were the two posters I asked for with note that said, "Thanks for liking our wine!"
Whoa. Jesus. More crying.
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