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Larry Truelove
Once when I was hurting deeply, I read Philip Yancy's "Where Is God When It Hurts?"
I wanted God to blast through my pain with some resolution and answer to the injustice I felt. But more often, in bible times, God's miraculous intervention was the exception and we want it to be the rule--particularly for us.
We need to learn to accept His silence in faith. I don't know how long Job suffered, but it was long enough for him to complain that God was silent.
Eileen Larson
I know where God was during some very hard times due to both physical and mental illness, economic problems, and near homelessness when I still had children in school. He was and is right there with me, giving me hope when I had none, giving me the grace and mercy to walk through blackness to joy and to deal with chronic pain.l
Larry Truelove
What a great post!
Melanie Barnert
Looking back good or bad, I can always see God working in my life. God answers prayers in His own time and way. We are not promised easy times, but need faith in Christ for everything. Love him as He loves us.