Speaking as one in a wide and endless range of medical issues with 3 of my family, I love when people speak on this from a place of understanding. As he says, empathy and anchor. It's one thing when it's for a year, a decade, 2 decades. It's 3 decades now and every 5 years or so yet another major new difficulty along with ongoing battles for medical aid, justice, rights by law, diagnoses afar, treatments that cost so much, watching children suffer. Yet, having been through the white waters and hard rocks there is the glimmer of new hope in an old faith. Of renewed but new confidence in a God whose ways are certainly not my ways. In a new understanding of how suffering can indeed bring good. I can only see the edge of one piece of the jigsaw yet, but His presence is greater than all of my griefs.
Great sermon! Two thumbs way up to the heavens 👍👍
Speaking as one in a wide and endless range of medical issues with 3 of my family, I love when people speak on this from a place of understanding. As he says, empathy and anchor. It's one thing when it's for a year, a decade, 2 decades. It's 3 decades now and every 5 years or so yet another major new difficulty along with ongoing battles for medical aid, justice, rights by law, diagnoses afar, treatments that cost so much, watching children suffer. Yet, having been through the white waters and hard rocks there is the glimmer of new hope in an old faith. Of renewed but new confidence in a God whose ways are certainly not my ways. In a new understanding of how suffering can indeed bring good. I can only see the edge of one piece of the jigsaw yet, but His presence is greater than all of my griefs.
Really good sermon!
You brought to mind Matthew 5: 45