Tag Archives: suffering
We have become pretty innovative engineering the beginning of life but seem quite helpless when it comes to stopping death. Unable to prevent the inevitable, we instead defiantly make sure we die on our own terms. We feel that since we have constructed some creative life on-ramps, we should also be able to exit life’s highway before we come to the end of the road. We then take things into our…..
When we suffer, we want answers, and we want them now. But most of the time we don’t receive an immediate response. Why does God delay in answering? Is He deaf to our cries? Maybe what He is really doing is silently drawing closer to us so He doesn’t miss a word of our complaint. Maybe he is honoring the liturgy of lament before He offers His beatific benediction. God’s perceived delay may actually be the precious time He gives us to…..
Jesus came so that we could have life and have it abundantly, but before we start preaching health and wealth we need to remember He also told us it would came prepackaged with a world of hurt. Abundance is generally thought of as affluence and wealth but is it possible that it also includes pain and suffering?
In A Grace Disguised, Jerry Sittser helps us understand how tragedy can expand our ability to experience life more abundantly.
Sorrow is noble…..
Intensive care medicine heroically rides in on its white stallion to save the day but all too frequently is followed by the callous black horseman of death. The physician who loves the technological toys of neonatal medicine is now confronted with a puddle of toxic emotional mercury they don’t know how to clean up. If evolutionary theory is, “all that…..
I believe one of the reasons that tattoos have become so popular is because they provide an entry point for story telling. They become the evocative cover to our personal life magazines. While many of us are uncomfortable asking strangers to share their life stories, we find it much easier when they have already etched a symbolic welcome mat on…..
Christians are frequently criticized for believing in a God that allows, or even promotes, evil, pain, and suffering. The critics make the case that the attributes of God are inconsistent with the presence of evil in the world. How can we defend an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent God when pain and suffering are so omnipresent?…..
