So I got burned out with the blog and have neglected it for far too long. Time to start posting again, only with quicker thoughts and fewer huge essays. Hopefully that will keep me from losing the will to write! I think blogs are more conducive to smaller posts anyhow.
As I've thought about some suffering and hardship that my family is going through right now, the following quote from Tim Keller has been a huge encouragement to me (quote is from a sermon on James 3 on wisdom). The cross changes everything!
"If you have a religion of [only] truth, and you suffer, you get mad at yourself saying 'I must have done something wrong.' If you have a religion of [only] love, and you suffer, then you get mad at God saying 'God why would you let anybody suffer?' But if you've seen the cross the wisdom of God is 'I'm a sinner, but God loves me so much that He's entered into my suffering so that he died not that I might not suffer but that in my suffering I might become like Him.'"
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