Suffering

IN AN INTENSIVE care ward, all visitors are united by a single, awful thread: concern over a dying relative or friend...

Economic differences...fade away. You'll see no sparks of racial tension there. Sometimes strangers will console one another or cry together quietly and unashamedly. All are facing life at its most essential. Many call for a [preacher] for the first time ever. Only the megaphone of suffering is strong enough to bring these people to their knees to ponder ultimate questions of life and death and meaning. (Philip Yancy)

KneEmail: "For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground...But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause" ( Job 5:6, 8)

Posted by Mike Benson at January 9, 2006 2:05 AM

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