July 2, 2008
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture’s mandate to us is, “Weep with them that weep.” (Romans 12:15, KJV)
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
June 29, 2008
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person. . . the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
June 29, 2008
When we go through trials and troubles we can always rely on God and know that He will be with us and will help us through. Clouds and rain can help make your roots strong and give you stability if you let God work through them. David in Psalms 124:1 - 8 expressed the same idea. So let us rejoice in our clouds and rain and know that God is still in control even when we can’t see Him.”
David Vincent
Living with Muscular Dystrophy
May 22, 2008
“One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.”
-Jerry Bridges, Navigators
May 12, 2008
Whatever might have happened, not every thing is bad news. Jesus is on your side. You may be forced to spend a lot of time on your own, but utilize that time. I find it enables me to get a lot into the Word, and to pray for many people. I see all the people rushing as I used to do, and many are hurting.
I have learned to sit and watch people. As a lady walks past I say, “Thank you Lord that she can walk. I am sure she needs it more than I now do. Maybe she has family,” and I start praying for her needs, and I find that as I do that I can cope with any hurt in my heart. I am convinced there is no hurt in your heart that you cannot overcome as you reach out to the needs of others.”
Helga Hopper, Massive Stroke Survivor
May 2, 2008
The fact that disabled people hang in there does something for Christians. It’s not about being an inspiration for others, it more than that…. it’s a mystery. God somehow strengthens others by their faithfulness. They may feel like a burden to others, but God thinks the opposite.
He thinks its necessary for others to take care of the disabled… they do more for one’s spiritual well being than can be imagined. What’s more is that it’s all being credited to the disabled person’s account, per Phillipians 1:25-26. If the disabled person is alone and does not meet others, they must endure for the purpose of teaching the unseen powers, the rulers, and authorities in the heavenly realms about the powerful and all sustaining Lord,” (Eph 3:10).
Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni and Friends
Reprinted from Daily Christian Quotes
April 27, 2008
I have discovered that patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
You can look at a person’s attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life… It’s better to be positive and wrong than negative and right! I would rather stay positive and get 50 percent good results, than stay negative and get 100 percent bad results!” –Joyce Meyer
April 20, 2008
Don Piper, author of 90 Minutes in Heaven, explains what he experienced…
With all the heightened awareness of my senses, I felt as if I had never seen, heard, or felt anything so real before. I don’t recall that I tasted anything, yet I knew that if I had, that too would have been more glorious than anything I had eaten or drunk on earth. The best way I can explain it is to say that I felt as if I were in another dimension. Never, even in my happiest moments, had I ever felt so fully alive. I stood speechless in front of the crowd of loved ones, still trying to take in everything. Over and over I heard how overjoyed they were to see me and how excited they were to have me among them. I’m not sure if they actually said the words or not, but I knew they had been waiting and expecting me, yet I also knew that in heaven there is no sense of time passing.“
Lisa Copen highly recommends this book! Most of it is about Don Piper’s struggle to recover both physically and spirituallly from his fatal car accident; you will gain so much encouragement from this pastor who (still) daily walks the path of chronic pain.
April 20, 2008
When we have been wounded by the Church, our temptation is to reject it. But when we reject the Church it becomes very hard for us to keep in touch with the living Christ. When we say, ‘I love Jesus, but I hate the Church,’ we end up losing not only the Church but Jesus too.
The challenge is to forgive the Church. This challenge is especially great because the Church seldom asks us for forgiveness, at least not officially. But the Church as an often fallible human organization needs our forgiveness, while the Church as the living Christ among us continues to offer us forgiveness.
It is important to think about the Church not as ‘over there’ but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom we are part and in whom we meet our Lord and Redeemer.” -Henry Nouwen
April 6, 2008
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” -Mister Fred Rogers
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