To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To place our ideas, our dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live …
Dear God: I have a problem. Well it’s not me exactly, it’s those religious nuts in our church. They keep talking about spiritual fruit? They drone on and on about love, joy, peace, long-suffering (boy do I know about that) on and on about kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and gentleness. Why …
And still the final word we Christians can offer is one we must offer: God is not absent. He is present in the world of human suffering, and He Himself suffered too. Here I quote the English minister Edward Shillito, after seeing the carnage of World War I: If we …
Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness, or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence. Billy Graham
