How to Give Thanks When You’re Far from Home
How can we sing Zion’s songs by Babylon’s rivers? Because we can’t be so far from home as to be far from God.
How can we sing Zion’s songs by Babylon’s rivers? Because we can’t be so far from home as to be far from God.
In the darkest nights of our souls, God’s sovereign love is the only place to find true peace.
Death really was as dreadful as I’d discovered it to be. But there was more. Mysteriously and magnificently, God really was as good as he promised to be.
It’s OK to stand at your loved one’s grave and weep. He or she is dead. She does, in fact, sleep. However, that sleep will not be forever; this is the bedrock of our hope. Asleep in the arms of Christ, our loved ones, like us, await a better place in God’s renewed creation.
Loneliness is suffocating.