Tag: suffering
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Look for the message in the mess
I tend to tromp hastily through life’s messes in an attempt to get them behind me. I wondered if I’d missed part of God’s message to me because of my tendency to hurry.
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The difference between an ordeal and an adventure
“Thank God for breast cancer!” Connie told me. It paved the way for her latest adventure.
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‘Suffering, too, is a good thing’…
My junior and senior English students had read Crime and Punishment and the book of Job. My bulletin board for the first quarter of school read “Suffering 4 doing evil is right; suffering 4 doing good is good” to encompass both the deserved suffering of the Russian protagonist and the undeserved suffering of the biblical […]
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No longer worrying that “it could happen to me”…
I’ve been reading the book of Job with my literature students recently, and we all agree that we wouldn’t want to claim Job’s comforters for ourselves. They weren’t very comforting. Sure, when Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar first arrived, they grieved with calamity Job silently—but once they opened their mouths, their apparent support for Job deteriorated […]