by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 17, 2010 | hope
For the past eleven posts, we’ve looked at the word “hope” as found in the book of Job. I bet you thought we’d never get out of Job but this is our last look at hope there. But hasn’t it been rich and appropriate for a person who is in such a...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 15, 2010 | hope, pain
I’m sure every one of us has felt at one time or another like God is stripping us of that which isn’t truly important. In Job 19:10, Job describes it this way, “He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.”...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 26, 2010 | hope, pain
I received a very kind email from a friend who I had updated on my condition. Although my pain is minimal, I told her, I still can’t sit without increasing my pain. She replied saying that while in the Valley of Wait I can remember that “This too will pass.” I...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 20, 2010 | hope, justice, pain
Our next encounter with the word “hope” is still in Job. (Don’t worry, we’ll get out of Job eventually!) But considering what Job went through, of all people, he definitely was in need of hope. And in Job 14, he speaks of hope twice. He turns his attention...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Feb 16, 2010 | grace, pain
I bent forward wrong yesterday and I’m finding that I’m feeling like since I didn’t do it right, since I made the mistake, I’m not worthy of God’s healing. The tortillas fell out of the refrigerator (we got take out from Las Casuelas for...
