Doris Trueheart's Blog – March 2009 Archive (4)

The birthing process is very painful and comes with a risk of death to mother, child, or both. Is 54:1, sing, O barren woman...cry aloud, for you shall bear more children than the married woman. Make the sound of birthing. Though you travail in sorrow, when the child is born, you shall be filled with joy and so great shall be your joy that it will cause you to forget the pain you endured. Jesus endured the cross for the joy that was set before him. Set your eyes on Jesus. Look toward your joy.

I think it is easy to be soft, easy to let go, easy to not care, easy not to accept responsibility and not be held accountable, easy not to be a man. But is that what anyone wants? I don't think so. It is hard to be tough, determined and tenacious; it is hard to hold on no matter what; it is hard to care, because that means you get involved and do something about the situation; it is hard to accept the responsibility, especially when there is a risk that things will go wrong, so very wrong; it… Continue

Trials come manifold.

Grief runs to take hold.

Tears, they flow like a river from my face.

I am comforted by God's healing grace.

In a bottle, my God stores all my tears.

My prayers are heard by his attentive ears.

My high priest, touched by my infirmity,

Brings me rest among this calamity.

Suffering and pain shall not go to waste

But to produce my good, they move in haste.

Weeping may endure, lasting all the night.

But when the morning… Continue

God is good and worthy to be praised. He is a mighty deliverer, who brings us out of bondage by his mighty hand. He leads us through a wilderness and brings us to a Promised Land, to a place that he has prepared for us.



"I wandered in the wilderness

In a solitary way.

I cried to the Lord, "Deliver me!"

He led me forth by the right way.

He led me to a city,

A city for me to dwell.

Thank God for his goodness,

For his wonderful work,

For a city… Continue