Monday, September 15, 2014

Notes on a grief experience


Job 26- God does not condemn us for honest grief when others judge our opinions, decisions, or experiences without reference to His love, compassion, and character. The love of God moves me from reward and punishment formulas to reality where life may make no logical sense, yet God is with me. (Psalm 73)

Friday, September 12, 2014

This gives me hope.




“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” 
~ Karl Barth

Our God will not be mocked by evil people. He sees everything. He alone knows our hearts. He wins. 

Sunday, September 7, 2014

When God seems silent.

It's enough to drive a man crazy, it'll break a man's faith
It's enough to make him wonder, if he's ever been sane
When he's bleating for comfort from Thy staff and Thy rod
And the Heaven's only answer is the silence of God

It'll shake a man's timbers when he loses his heart
When he has to remember what broke him apart
This yoke may be easy but this burden is not
When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God

And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob
Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got
When they tell you all their troubles
Have been nailed up to that cross
Then what about the times when even followers get lost?
'Cause we all get lost sometimes

There's a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll
In the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold
And He's kneeling in the garden, as silent as a Stone
All His friends are sleeping and He's weeping all alone

And the man of all sorrows, he never forgot
What sorrow is carried by the hearts that he bought
So when the questions dissolve into the silence of God
The aching may remain but the breaking does not
The aching may remain but the breaking does not
In the holy, lonesome echo of the silence of God

Writer(s): Andrew Peterson

Lyrics source: http://www.songlyrics.com/andrew-peterson/the-silence-of-god-lyrics/#ICKPGypAUKFqc4JU.99


Listen:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bv-V38SyOzc