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Weekend Wisdom

Weekend Wisdom: Dickens

Michele Kearns

A short, sweet, simple quote from Charles Dickens.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Charles Dickens

Imagine the joy you will feel being reunited with a loved one in heaven. The heavenly relationship will be deeper and more meaningful than your earthly relationship with your loved one.

Source: brainyquote.com

Bio: Michele Kearns is the founder and HUG© (Hope Unites Globally) Award-Winner of JoyReturns. She shares her widowhood adventures hoping to inspire widows to move through grief and rebuild their lives. A graduate of Kent State University with a Bachelor’s degree in communications, she’s currently using those skills as a virtual contact center representative for a Fortune 100 company. She’s also managed call center teams, co-facilitated a grief support group, and helped small businesses with various writing assignments. Michele loves Jesus, books, history, music, chocolate, red roses, and golden retrievers. She is also the amateur photographer behind the blog OgleOhio.com.

Weekend Wisdom

Valerie’s Weekend Wisdom: He Knows

Michele Kearns

Happy Sunday!

This video was suggested by my friend and fellow widow Valerie. May it bring you comfort and joy today and every day.

Thank you, Valerie!

 

 

He Knows

By Jeremy Camp

All the bitter weary ways
Endless striving day by day
You barely have the strength to pray
In the valley low

And how hard your fight has been
How deep the pain within
Wounds that no one else has seen
Hurts too much to show

All the doubt you’re standing in between
And all the weight that brings you to your knees

He knows
He knows
Every hurt and every sting
He has walked the suffering
He knows
He knows
Let your burdens come undone
Lift your eyes up to the one
Who knows
He knows

We may faint and we may sink
Feel the pain and near the brink
But the dark begins to shrink
When you find the one who knows

The chains of doubt that held you in between
One by one are starting to break free

He knows
He knows
Every hurt and every sting
He has walked the suffering
He knows
He knows
Let your burdens come undone
Lift your eyes up to the one
Who knows
He knows

Every time that you feel forsaken
Every time that you feel alone
He is near to the brokenhearted
Every tear
He knows

He knows
Every hurt and every sting
He has walked the suffering
He knows
He knows
Let your burdens come undone
Lift your eyes up to the one
Who knows
He knows
He knows
He knows

Songwriters: Jeremy Camp
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Why Is There Pain and Suffering?

Michele Kearns

I am writing this to explain as simply as possible why we experience pain and suffering.  There are readers out there who do not understand why, so I felt the need to write this post and what better time to do it than during holy week.

Not Plan A

Pain and suffering was not God’s original plan for us.  His original plan was for us to live in relationship with him.  There was beautiful, luscious garden and all Adam and Eve had to do was to work and care for it.  They even ran around butt-naked without being self-conscious.

1 Thing

There was only one thing they could not do:

“And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”

Genesis 2:16

If they were given a list of 100, 500 or 1,000 things they could not do, I could understand them making a mistake.

But they only had 1 thing they could not do and they still messed up.

Because they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sin and death entered this world.  That is why there is pain and suffering.

To Be Continued

Pain and suffering will continue until God decides to fix the situation – in His time.