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On the Adventure of Adversity

On January 21, 2017January 21, 2017 By 1pursuitIn Difficulty and Pain, Uncategorized3 Comments

This is the fourth post on this topic. “When trials and temptations crowd into your life, don’t resent them…welcome them as friends!”  How can such difficulties possibly be for our good?  And if they are for our good, does our God keep adding more adversity, more difficulty to our lives? And if He does that, …

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On the Adventure of Adversity

On January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 By 1pursuitIn Difficulty and PainLeave a comment

“Life is hard.  Then, you die.” This is the happy, hopeful message I read on a bumper sticker several years ago.  I have never forgotten it, in large part because I was struck at how truthful the message was, and yet how it totally missed “the rest of the story.” Yes, adversity dogs us.  Setbacks, …

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On the Adventure of Adversity

On January 14, 2017 By 1pursuitIn Difficulty and PainLeave a comment

Nearly three years ago, on a sunny Saturday morning, I had just finished a long weekend run.  As I stood in the kitchen drinking a Powerade, my phone rang.  Looking at the California number on the ID and calculating the time difference, I knew before answering it that bad news was coming.  And I was …

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On the Adventure of Adversity

On January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 By 1pursuitIn Difficulty and PainLeave a comment

“If God loves me, why can’t I get my locker open?”  This is the tongue-in-cheek title of a popular teen devotional book written years ago.  Perhaps it was popular because we have all had this thought in some form or another.  If God loves me, why did my father treat me as he did?  If …

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