Trying to explain, and trying and trying and trying

Lyrics [Internet Archive link] Audrey Assad's "I Shall Not Want" is to Ellie as "Eye of the Tiger" is to Rocky Balboa. Every line of that song has come to life for me in this ordeal. The second stanza, which speaks of wanting others to understand, is the part I'm really thinking about today. And deliverance… Continue reading Trying to explain, and trying and trying and trying

Job shows us how we may respond to suffering

"For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease. Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil, yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young… Continue reading Job shows us how we may respond to suffering