Life isn’t easy. Often, it is hard. We learn we have to pray to God, and if that doesn’t work, we have to plead. Then, say the people, and of course, the Bible, we must have faith that God will come through for us at some point. Then we have to wait. Then we have […]
Read moreI’m still thinking about this question: What should I do when hardship comes knocking at the door of my life now and then, maybe more often for some? Hardship doesn’t wait for me to open the door. It crashes into my life. Marie says she doesn’t even have a door anymore. She says: Our story […]
Read moreGod makes promises in the Bible again and again, and again and again those promises come true. Sometimes, there is quite a long period between the promise and its fulfilment. Look at Abraham and Sarah, for example. They longed to have a son. They longed to have descendants. But obviously, the older you get, the […]
Read moreSomeone in my family is suffering badly from cancer. Someone in my family of in-laws is suffering badly from cancer. Someone in my circle of friends is struggling with an aggressive cancer. I woke early and prayed for all of them. I don’t know if I would’ve been able to deal with it. The treatments […]
Read moreMarina (not her real name) wrote to me in an e-mail: The time is 23:30 and I’m reading that piece about the clutch slipping. Thank you for this piece. It’s precisely where I was … slipping off the road, because I was sulking. It felt to me as if the Lord did not hear me and […]
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