Here & There

“You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will look back in a few years and be absolutely perplexed and awed by how every little thing added up and brought you somewhere wonderful- or where you always wanted to be. You will be grateful that things didn’t work out the way you once wanted them to.”

For Christians, there is no such thing as meaningless suffering. The Lord is always refining us, always sharpening us for the building of his church.

“The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world.”

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

I want to be open to what God wants to do through me, because so many times what I want for me is a lesser version of me.