Posts tagged Trusting God with pain
What Are You Expecting?
What Are You Expecting?

The Psalms are love poems, complaints and laments full of exuberance and pain, written by people who got knocked down, depressed, soaked their pillows with tears and chose God anyway.

What if that was our approach to Coronavirus? What if we complained and railed and had freak-out meltdowns with God AND expected Him to deliver us into something better and deeper on the other side of the madness.

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Know GodErin KirkPsalms in crisis, Trusting God with painComment
A Word to You Non-Mothers
A Word to You Non-Mothers

For most of my life the controlling narrative has been Be Awesome. Need Nothing. Even as I dragged myself through a disastrous miscarriage, I didn't ask for help. I also scolded myself for being selfish: "Who are you to be so sad, when other people are suffering so much worse. Think about Syria!" 

But both of those are bullshit lies.

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Know YourselfErin Kirkmothers day hurts, Glennon Melton Doyle, Momastery, Trusting People with pain, Trusting God with pain, Infertility and Mothers day, the love of GodComment