Eden Exile's Blog – April 2009 Archive (2)

Since joining this site I have had a warm welcome from many kind people. Several of them are residents of the Philippines.



It came as a real shock to read the following news story:



Pastor testifies that he was tortured in the Philippines



I know very little of the Philippines but I can say, based on the communication I have had here, that its people are kind and good. In photographs it looks like a beautiful… Continue

It seems to me that many people become lost in grief. Like Jonah they feel themselves swallowed up, dragged down into the depths. What can be said to such people? What can we say to ourselves when the world seems bleak?



I like a verse that someone recently reminded me of, "With God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26)



This is the truth of it, no matter how grim things might appear God waits to make restitution, to make all things new.



As it says in… Continue