When we have known deep heartache, are we not, (if we will lend ourselves to it,) given the balm to help the healing of others whose hearts are a breaking? With spirit anguished and broken, can we not tenderly receive the grief stricken, that we too may be healed? Herein do we tender and demonstrate …
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Because He lives!
Some years ago I attended the funeral of a beloved student whose grief stricken parents had no religion to turn to. A religious service was quickly organized, but I have not forgotten the feeling of awful and utter desolation accompanying the parents in their moment of unimaginable grief. Where was their boy? Were they never …
Forgive, That We Might Be Forgiven
I awoke very early one morning pondering over the things I had not been able to forgive. I mentally recounted some of them. There was the teacher who terrified and bullied me when I was a little child. That was most difficult to forgive, for I remembered the tears it brought to my gentle mother. …
Divine Redeemer
Then came the moment when Jesus spake to the Twelve, saying, “Behold, the hour…is now come…” (1) Long before the foundation of the earth He had entered into covenant with the Father that He would come forth and redeem all mankind, (2) and now the awful hour had come when He would say in his …