Have you noticed that pain hurts, no matter how bad it is? Whether it’s physical or emotional, whatever pain we’re having at the moment seems worse than anything we’ve had before. That’s because we’re feeling it right now, in the present. We might have actually had worse pain in the past, but it’s a memory. […]
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When Life Goes Badly
One day, a farmer’s old donkey fell into a well. The donkey struggled for hours, but it was too deep. There was no way out. The farmer thought and thought and thought, but couldn’t find a way to rescue the old donkey. There was no solution. Since the donkey was old, and the well needed […]
Whose Pain is Worse — Yours, or Mine?
Roger and I were driving together to Prescott, Arizona. He was a friend, and the pastor of a church outside of Phoenix. I was going to be speaking at a retreat he had arranged for the men of his church at a mountain retreat center. My kids were teenagers at the time, and they were […]