Am I Weeping with the Savior for Our Groaning World?

I sat in the cold, blank hospital room and talked with my sweet friends, an elderly couple.  I had visited them before in their warm, cozy home. The man had chronic pain since I’d known them, in his back and in his heart.  His heart because he lost his only daughter at a young age in a car accident, maybe over 30 years ago now. My mind wandered, searching for something to talk about as I noted the empty room, comparing it in my mind to the walls in their home cluttered with pictures of their dear, gone daughter. As if…

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Quote For The Weekend…Beauty From The Stuff That Makes Us Weep

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“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” 
 Clive Barker, Days of Magic Nights of War
 
We should say…it takes a real woman to do that too…
 
And that real man or woman’s heart is first tranformed by Jesus Christ.
 
When the movie, Les Miserables, ended, I wanted it to stay dark in the theater.  I didn’t want people to see my heart bursting out of my chest.  Thankfully, there were a few others moved in…

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