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With His Wounds We Are Healed

On April 19, 2019April 18, 2019 By RosinaIn Inner LifeLeave a comment

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we …

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Jesus, Who Lives in Mud, by Lucinda J. Miller

On March 10, 2019March 11, 2019 By RosinaIn Inner Life5 Comments

A few days before Easter: I stride in boots down the gravel road that runs past our house, look back at heel prints left in soft dirt. Water and half-melted snow pool in ditches. I scoop up a handful of soggy gravel and smell it, but the peculiar scent of earthy spring is not in …

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They came for him yesterday

On January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 By RosinaIn Inner Life22 Comments

The social worker came for him yesterday. She stepped inside our door, and our child ran crying into the kitchen. He cried and clung to Will, his two-year-old tears saying, "Don't let them take me away!" Will picked him up, held him close, then buckled him in the car seat, and they took him away. …

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The waste of love

On October 7, 2018October 7, 2018 By RosinaIn Inner Life13 Comments

I wake up with a dark hole of emptiness eating through my chest, and it takes me a second to realize why. My little girl is gone. The child that I loved from the minute I set eyes on her is gone. I still remember how she felt sleeping heavily in my arms that first …

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Little girl

On August 14, 2017January 15, 2018 By RosinaIn Family and Friends, Inner Life10 Comments

Little girl, I'll never forget the first morning you stepped inside my front door. I noticed your hesitation, and I didn't blame you, for you had been in too many homes to count. You later told me that you didn't like any of them except for one. How could you know if I would be …

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A life of its own

On April 9, 2017April 9, 2017 By RosinaIn Inner Life4 Comments

"Suffering doesn't need explanation. The experience of it calls for healing not reason because suffering splits you in two, creates a breach between you and your own existence. The rigid stance you take against your personal pain straining to erase your event, and not to include it in your present, makes you your own murderer. …

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Jesus Only (part 2)

On February 1, 2017 By RosinaIn Hearing God, Inner Life12 Comments

In my last post, I talked about finding strength for the task that God gives us. This post will touch on the subject of finding meaning through suffering. The verses that made such an impression on me regarding these two subjects are found in Matthew 17: But Jesus came and touched them, saying, "Rise, and have no …

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heartbreak

On January 18, 2017May 9, 2017 By RosinaIn Family and Friends, Inner Life17 Comments

God, I cannot sleep, Even though I'm exhausted, I cannot sleep because the pain strikes so deep. So deep it pins me to my bed. I want to get up to pray, to touch his suffering skin, but it hurts too much. The sob lies stillborn in my throat as I think about my son …

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The Toad Beneath the Harrow

On February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 By RosinaIn Inner Life4 Comments

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad. -Rudyard Kipling   This poem has been running through my mind as some of our dearest friends are walking through a valley of suffering (and I have a few sorrows of my own, …

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A Pinched-off Piece Of Clay

On February 2, 2016February 3, 2016 By RosinaIn Family and Friends, Inner LifeLeave a comment

After Job's three friends finished their rebukes, a firebrand named Elihu gave his piece. Elihu was angry at the incompetency of Job's friends, and unleashed his own tirade. These words from Elihu caught my attention: Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. Job 33:6 …

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