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Tag Archive for ‘misfortune’

Thursday 19 July

Isaiah 26:7-19; Psalm 102; Matthew 11:28-30 Bring your heavy load to Me How well the scriptures blend together today! With Isaiah we search for God when misfortune overwhelms us and life seems too difficult to bear. When God seems to be far from us the psalmist expresses so well our pain and feeling of abandonment. […]

Acceptance

As I’ve always believed, one of the great things about the Christian faith is that it offers a ‘bob both ways’.  If something bad happens to you, you can always extract good from it – offering it up for a special cause, or finding the peace that willing acceptance of God’s will brings. Many confuse […]