tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136713661812329747.post3181936179665584024..comments2017-09-11T09:28:06.408-05:00Comments on 49 and holding...: Bad Friday? Be Encouraged...Deborah Coble http://www.blogger.com/profile/03281284722483380968noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136713661812329747.post-3389757468675800152014-04-18T08:17:12.295-05:002014-04-18T08:17:12.295-05:00thank you, Randy, for sharing your story. It is i...thank you, Randy, for sharing your story. It is indeed often hard to see Good in the midst of darkness and loss. <br /><br />Peace of Christ to you and yours as well.Deborah Coble https://www.blogger.com/profile/03281284722483380968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5136713661812329747.post-36605460429498504082014-04-11T09:33:27.508-05:002014-04-11T09:33:27.508-05:00Our lives consist of our moments and oftentimes th...Our lives consist of our moments and oftentimes those are heart-breaking moments. Heartbreaking, even though we know the "rest of the story." A friend and member of our church shared his "bad anniversary" remembrance during our joys and concerns last week--the memories of a horrible accident involved a brain injury which had forever-on-this-earth consequences. And yet, as he said, "I'm here. And life is good." My kids and I will always remember the last day of school as a "bad anniversary"--it was the day their mom died--it will be five years ago this year. These sorts of memories touch our hearts when things turn out OK and when they don't. Either way it's a struggle to understand the promise, "all things work together for good." Whatever that means, it doesn't mean that all things are rosy all the time. Maybe, at its deepest level, it means that God redeems us from suffering through his own suffering. "Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it" (Nicholas Wolterstorff). Thanks for sharing your story. Peace of Christ. Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14316973163844460013noreply@blogger.com