Live courageously from your heart!
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I had the honor of being a guest on a Fire Press Radio podcast with missionary and author Steve Bremner. Join our conversation as we walk through places in my book Heartstone: A Journey Out of the Midnight of My Soul and some things I learned from life’s struggles.
As I was reflecting on my journey, I thought to myself, can God take the clutter of our lives, with everything seemingly stacked against it and redeem it?
My alarm clock this morning was a gentle breeze accompanied by the nature’s music of the birds singing right outside my window. It was just one of those mornings where you say, “Yeah, life is good!” The weather is beautiful, I had the day planned out and today was my son’s first rounds of SAT’s.
We jumped in the car and headed over to Dunkin’ Donuts to fuel up on a couple iced teas and breakfast sandwiches before heading over to the school. We arrived a few minutes early so my son could get settled. I waited a bit just to make sure and off I went to get an oil change.
I was working through my daily reading list when this headline, “STATS: Americans ‘snapping’ by the millions…” caught my eye on drudgereport.com. My first thought was this might be something related to the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon. As I continued to read it was clear that the commentary had a political angle, but putting that aside, I could not stop thinking about the deeper issues outlined in the article.
“Of course, at the nuclear core of the myriad assaults on traditional America is the rejection of God and repudiation of the Judeo-Christian values that underpin Western civilization. This in turn has led to pervasive societal disintegration and a Pandora’s Box of almost unimaginable problems.”i
Once again this nation has come under attack. But for me and many others it’s right on our back doorstep, this time it happened in Boston. The Boston Marathon is a special day for celebrating everything that is good about Boston, its a day where the city opens up its arms and welcomes runners from around the world. It’s a day where they are part of our community for a day.
Sadly what started out to be a beautiful day with excitement and anticipation of who would win the marathon, tragedy struck.
Check out these lyrics from the song ‘Jesus Bring The Rain’ by Mercy Me.
So I pray
Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there’ll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that’s what it takes to praise You
Jesus, bring the rain
That’s a tough perspective, isn’t it?