Archive for the ‘Suffering’ Category

Ananias and His Wife

Today I’ve felt unfocused, confused, and both mentally and physically sick. During my classes I was unable to pay attention and write notes…I couldn’t carry on a conversation with a person I normally talk to for  hours on end…and I also just wanted to do nothing but sleep because I felt so gross inside, like  [...]

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If it’s not one thing…it’s another

My family never seems to be at rest for more than a week at a time, never. I love my parents and my brother, but as a family unit we can never seem to operate properly. My brother is 22 works in a local factory and still lives at home, though is in the process [...]

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Pain in the Offering

There is a song we sing at our weekly Bible studies called “Blessed Be Your Name,” and recently it has convicted me of how I live. There is a line in the song that says:

“Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name”

 The part “though there’s pain [...]

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