It has been a rough week. Hopefully I will get back on track after the weekend. Yes, that means I am also taking the weekend off blogging. There are some really difficult situations in the life of people I know and love right now. Along with hurting for them, it also has the effect of taking me mentally back into some of the hardest times in my own life. I am going to take some time to just rest and reflect and pray.
Like the quote from Lord of the Rings on day 33: " There are some things that time cannot mend,
some hurts that go too deep... that have taken hold."
Although it says time does not mend these things, I think, in a sense, they are healed ( by Christ) but the scars remain. Then when I see others suffering the same pain, it is as though the scar itches and reminds me of just how it got there. Their pain becomes mine again, because I have felt it.
This life can be amazingly joyful and desperately difficult. There cannot be one without the other.
I am so looking forward to the next one that God promises will be ALL joy.
I pray that the people I know who are suffering right now will find the Cross. The love of Christ. I pray they will know that no matter what happens, if they accept His gift of forgiveness, bought and paid for on the Cross, then they will have the hope of eternity. The victory of Love. The wisdom of suffering. The promises of God's provision.
Romans 5
Peace with God Through Faith
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person--though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. 11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
My precious daughter, you have, without a doubt, become one of God's most endearing messengers. God bless you and may He keep His arms wrapped around all of us. I love you so very much, Mom.
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