Against All Human Hope: Dealing With Disappointment
When I got home from Christmas break, I celebrated one week without falling. A few days later, a brutal combination of COVID and a symptom
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To Wormwood on Pain
My Dear Wormwood, I understand that you are trying a new tactic on your patient – the sudden onset of physical pain. Even my hardened
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When the Darkness Does Not Lift
Every single day, I go for a walk by the water. I am blessed to live in a place that is beautiful, five minutes away
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One Year of Grief
It’s November. Which means it has almost been a year to the very day since my brother’s accident. It’s been 350 days. Two weeks short
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Does God Strike Low Blows?
Veneetha Rendall Risner had undergone twenty-one separate surgeries by the time she was 13 years old. She had contracted polio as an infant and spent
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4 Gospel Promises for Self-Hating Christians
I remember being eleven years old, just entering the world of braces and acne scars, staring into our bathroom mirror and feeling consciously insecure for
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To the Fellow Believer Struggling With Prayer
A few times this past year, I received letters from close friends, at a time when I was struggling with very similar emotions to the
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When God Takes Away What He Gives
Isaiah wanted a little brother since the time he could look around, and realize he was the only kid in the troop of his kind.
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Eight Months Closer….
“Do you have a brother?” “Yes, I do,” I answered. How can a 4-year-old ask a question that is like a punch in the gut?
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The Poem I Wrote As I Struggled With Depression
Last year, I struggled with a deep and debilitating depression, through which I was burdened with the feeling (among other things) that the promises of
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