tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590439.post112724464191519072..comments2023-11-29T14:19:40.613+02:00Comments on Facing The Mountain: Anna 'Bop'Finnie Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14422106811132238755noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590439.post-1127293007656930952005-09-21T10:56:00.000+02:002005-09-21T10:56:00.000+02:00Dear Dean & Paula,I am praying for you right now. ...Dear Dean & Paula,<BR/>I am praying for you right now. Thank you for sharing your experiences with me - please never forget that we have joined the Champion. Even if it seems like we are losing the battle, the Victory is sure. Stay strong in the Lord. <BR/><BR/><B>How do you comfort Job?</B><BR/>"Lord, I read in Your Word, that things were not much different when You lived outside The Front Door for a moment of our 'man-time', and that You were a 'man of sorrows and acquainted with grief'."<BR/>"It killed Me," He said. I thought about that!<BR/>After a bit I ventured - "But You were able to speak words of redemption into the situation, to save the world - and anyway, You are God! In the face of their deep distress I feel so little and helpless and - and 'human'. In fact I feel sort of 'unnecessary'! Can I say anything that will help?"<BR/>"No."<BR/>"I didn't think I could - so - why am I here?"<BR/>"Because this is where I want you! Why does there have to be a 'why'? Isn't it reason enough to be where I want you to be, among the people I send you to? You are here to have a ministry of Presence and a ministry of Silence. Listen to them!"<BR/>"But," I ventured "when I can't do anything, or say anything, or change anything - isn't that a waste of time?"<BR/>"I want you here to 'feel' something! To feel the hatred, and weep."<BR/>"I can do that."<BR/>"DO IT THEN!"<BR/><BR/>From GOD'S FRONT DOOR by Jill Briscoe.<BR/><BR/>Blessings from the Netherlands<BR/>PaulPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04542594127010806965noreply@blogger.com