Three paragraphs from articles we read

     Include helping her by showing her from the Bible that there is a God in heaven who loves her. He knows from the depths because He formed her in the womb. He binds up broken hearts. He offers hope and a future, giving meaning to temporary sufferings. He forgives sins so that we can start again with a clean conscience. He offers His trustworthy rules for living, that we may escape our moribund, self-sabotaging ways. 

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     God bless the child who does not short-circuit the struggle but, elects to stay in the crucible, enduring the heat, trusting in the process, until meaning is forged and growth is attained. For we are not a list of symptoms but His much-loved child, meant to thrive.

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     Christ stretched out His own hands and let strangers take Him where He dreaded to go. He knew what was coming when He prayed: "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you?" - John 17:1. Glory began with the most ignominious death. God has a goal in mind. If humiliation is the seed of a glorious bloom, how can I complain?

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