Category: Detoured by Affliction

If God were not Omnipotent, then would it fall to meTo hold the stars in heaven and the water in the sea?To bring the summer sunshine and cause everything to grow,To dress the trees for autumn and then send the winter snow?But if He has sufficient strength to keep the stars in line,Then surely He…

I don’t know why I was never arrested for drunk driving: I took an awful chance. I don’t understand why I was safe after accepting a ride with a total stranger. The thought horrifies me, now that I have a daughter. I can’t explain why some people have their lives upended by a foolish mistake…

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. Robert H. Schuller ********** Don’t try to rush things: for the cup to run…

The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: “Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God’s…

It’s been more than 3 months since the onset of this current Chronic Fatigue episode. I spent the first month denying and fighting it, and the second impatiently resentful. Though not out of the woods yet, I’m adjusting now. I’m happy, though wistful, watching others move forward with things I love doing. If you had…

“Oh, don’t the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn’t your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!” W. S. Gilbert in Princess Ida I’ve noticed recently that I grumble and complain a lot. It’s fun, easy and I’m very, very good at it. But…

Therefore we do not become discouraged [spiritless, disappointed, or afraid]. Though our outer self is [progressively] wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day by day. For our momentary, light distress [this passing trouble] is producing for us an eternal weight of glory [a fullness] beyond all measure [surpassing all comparisons, a…

As I woke I knew it was going to be a “crashy” day. I was exhausted, unable to keep my eyes open. “I can’t,” I said to God, sadly. A thought came: “I can’t, You never said I could. You can, You always said You would.” I went online to search for that quote. W….

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven . . . Ecclesiastes 3:1 King James Version (KJV) If you are like me, you thought of the 1965 song by the Byrds. It is one of the few instances in popular music where Biblical text is used –…

From an email I sent on November 14, 2019: “I woke up this morning to quarrel with God. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. I find myself demanding my health back so I can continue to do all the things I want to do.  I hate feeling like I’m letting people down. I hate…