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3 Benefits for a Trial

How can we consider trials joyful? How was my husband’s leukemia joyful? Joy disappeared when my child went wayward. Joy flees when depression chases it. Joy escaped when the mammogram showed something unusual. Where is joy when our hearts are broken?
Does joy seem like a dream you continually chase after, but like a butterfly, it eludes you? I have found the problem lies within our minds. We seek joy in the wrong places.
Joy isn’t the absence of trials, but the presence of God.

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Get Off the Slippery Slope of Rejection

I had stopped seeking the applause of heaven and began seeking the applause of man. I desperately desired the acceptance of people, because people had rejected me all my life. Through it all, I had neglected the acceptance of God, my heavenly Father.
He had accepted me long ago, when others turned their backs. He loved me so much that He made me accepted in the beloved, according to today’s verse.

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Mother’s Day Pain

Then Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign...

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