[ come ye disconsolate ]

1.  I’m still listening to this song constantly. 2.  The ability to concentrate on school through all the emotion is still eluding me. 3.  All the deadlines are getting perilously close.  I could use prayer about that. 4.  I feel like I can’t talk to anyone here about what I’m feeling.  The words are locked [...]

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal

Come, ye disconsolate, where’er ye languish, Come to the Mercy-seat, fervently kneel. Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Joy of the desolate, Light of the straying, Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure; Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying, Earth has no sorrow that [...]

prayer

I’ve been listening to this sermon series — Pray Like Jesus — today.  Mark Driscoll is realistic about pain and life.  God is using these thoughts and the words of Christ to teach me how to talk to him honestly and rightly. The Lord’s Prayer The Gethsemane Prayer The High Priestly Prayer, Pt. 1 The [...]

broken

“There are no steps to grief—there’s no process to it, and closure is the myth of the century…” I’ve learned a couple things in these days of searching for answers.  For one thing, Google doesn’t have many.  Most people don’t really share the pain of broken engagements with the world.  The only real, satisfactory answers [...]