Tag: suffering

• 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.

  Sara

  October 24, 2017

  character, Humor, life

  life lessons, love, responsibility, suffering

• The difference between an ordeal and an adventure

  

  “Thank God for breast cancer!” Connie told me. It paved the way for her latest adventure.

  Sara

  January 25, 2017

  character, friends, Humor, inspiration

  attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure, breast cancer, cancer, choose your attitude, hope, inspiration, positive attitude, Romans 8:18-25, suffering

• ‘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 […]

  Sara

  September 29, 2013

  blogging, character, Christian life, education, life, teaching

  ax murderer, biblical character, book of job, Crime and Punishment, essay prompt, fyodor dostoyevsky, I Peter 4:12-19, Job, Romans 5:3-5, suffering, suffering is good, writing about suffering

• 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 […]

  Sara

  September 14, 2013

  character, Christian life, family, Humor, life

  5-minute read, dementia, faith, fear, featured, it could happen to me, longform, mother, suffering, the book of Job, trust, why, worry, wplongform