Natural response #3: where is God in all this?
When we hear bad news, it’s hard not to think ‘Where is God in all this?’ When someone is not responding to chemotherapy, it’s easy to ask ‘Is there even a God?’ When an...
Monthly Archive: December 2015
Natural response #2: hiding under the covers
This is naturally me. I am not good in a crisis. Everyone close to me knows that. I freeze. My body closes down. I’m screaming and panicking inside but I’m rooted to the spot....
Natural response #1: the desire to get even
Remember yesterday? How Nehemiah asked the question ‘How are things?’. They told me, “The exile survivors who are left there in the province are in bad shape. Conditions are appalling. The wall of Jerusalem...
When I heard the news………
The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some...
