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...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 30, 2010 | pain, recommended reading
I’d like to recommend an important book, Surviving One Bad Year: Spiritual Strategies for When Life Goes Terribly Wrong by Nancie Carmichael. As I read her book, I was encouraged by Nancie’s vulnerable sharing about her challenging time. It was especially...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 29, 2010 | hope, pain
Yesterday, I wrote about reaching the end of my rope in the midst of pain. Today, I was continuing my reading in Catherine Martin’s excellent book, Drawing Strength from the Names of God, and the Lord gave me a new insight about how He provides for us when we...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jan 28, 2010 | hope, pain
Have you ever been so discouraged that you didn’t think life was worthwhile and maybe not even worth living? I’ve only experienced that depth of despair, helplessness, and hopelessness a few times in my life. And most recently, it was when I was in so much...
