[Sarah’s] laughter comes from as deep a place as tears come from, and in a way it comes from the same place. As much as tears do, it comes out of the world where God is of all missing persons the most missed, except that it comes not as an ally of darkness, but as […]
“When we mourn with others , we share the burden of their sorrows. Nothing has changed. Nothing’s been fixed. No problem has been solved — except this. They are no longer alone in their mourning. And that changes everything.”- John Ortberg As John Ortberg continues Chapter 6 of I’d Like You More . . . […]
“You have collected all my tears in your bottle.”- Psalm 56:8 In Chapters 17 (“Bottled Prayer”) and 18 (“Now There Was One”), the concluding chapters of The Circle Maker, Mark Batterson writes that there are many different kind of tears, including the tears shed in prayer. Specifically, David’s psalm promise may be the place for […]