Personal Struggles

Personal Experience

Broken Vessel “I often sat at the dinner table with an empty place setting, wondering why my husband never included me in his social life. I became accustomed to being left out of his alcohol-rich partying, ashamed, knowing that the only place he had any use for me was in the bedroom.”

Lessons From a Fall "I wasn't afraid; I was surprised. I could not believe that I was going to fall. As I plunged toward the hard, jagged rocks and certain death, I yelled so loud that the kids on the ground heard me. In a split second, everything I had didn't matter -- my relationships, my college plans, my job. No one could help me."

Articles

Questions to Pat Answers When things aren't going well, when our bodies hurt, when life is going downhill, how can we "think happy thoughts" or look on the bright side?

Seeing the Invisible The only way to survive troubles in this life is to not look at them, but at the unseen God with us.

Smiling Outside, Lost Within She was a woman in pain, without hope of getting well. Then she met Someone who would make her whole. And what He did for her, He can do for us.

Suffering: A Taste of Bitter Pills When calamity hits, is God trying to teach us a lesson or has the natural, fallen order dealt us a blow? Does God even care?

The Safest Place in the World A battle or prison; blindness or cancer; financial ease or economic want: It doesn't matter where we are in this world, as long as God is there.

Walking the Emmaus Road As we travel life's hard, dark road, a Stranger is by our side.

Walking the Way of Pain A job loss . . . rebellious children . . . sickness . . . death. How can we survive when life dishes out more than we can take?

Why, God? Sometimes comforting answers to life's problems aren't easy to find.

Why God Allows Suffering It's a common human foible: living life as if God didn't matter and then blaming Him when bad things happen. John Shirn presents a personal challenge as he tackles the difficult questions of "Why?" and "Where were You, God?"

Your Life Script Who you are today has been written by many "authors" in your life. If you're living a negative script, you can have it rewritten.