These Trials Graciously Bestowed
Life has been crazy, chaotic, laden with emotions, slathered with fatigue, and fraught with ever "yet another thing" Most days I grit my teeth and resolve to grin and bear it, some days I dissolve into tears telling God, my husband, my mom, my best friend, and anyone else who will listen, the burdens of my heart. It can certainly be helpful to express those things verbally to another person and to have empathy and advice being given - God made us to be relational creations. But, oh, the lack of joy and thankfulness I have seen in myself recently. Faithful saints flit through my mind from day to day of late. Martyrs from the past, the early church, faithful ones with whom I am blessed to share an acquaintance. They've flitted through my mind and then life continues, scarcely leaving time for...