by skimhenson | Sep 29, 2021 | Happiness and Suffering, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“But, Much-Afraid, I have already warned you that Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know Pain too.” The quote above is from Hannah Hurnard’s book Hinds’ Feet on High Places, an allegory dramatizing the...
by skimhenson | Sep 28, 2021 | Happiness and Suffering, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“Great works are done in deep waters.” Dr. David Jeremiah A few Sundays ago, my husband and I took a couple of minutes on our church stage to tell what Solid Rock meant to us and to pray before the sermon. I read my paraphrased version from the beginning of Psalm 107,...
by skimhenson | Sep 27, 2021 | Happiness and Suffering, On The Other Side of Trying Hard
“The pain now is part of the happiness then. That’s the deal.” C.S. “Jack” Lewis in the movie Shadowlands I’m not sure what my urgency was about the afternoon I called my husband and daughter who were together and tiling her and her husband’s shower floor. ...
by skimhenson | Sep 23, 2021 | On The Other Side of Trying Hard, What Is It About That Word?
Disclaimer: A friend said not to get too weird about this Jesus stuff to the point that people avoid me and my writing. I promised myself the same thing, not to be too weird and Jesus-freaky. But, y’all, if we don’t recognize He’s our happiness and...
by skimhenson | Sep 22, 2021 | On The Other Side of Trying Hard, What Is It About That Word?
“Happiness is not a goal. It’s the by-product of a life well lived.” Eleanor Roosevelt If you’re like me, you learned from your parents’ discipline techniques what worked with your own children, and you remembered practices that didn’t work and vowed not to repeat...