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by Carin Olsson

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All the feels

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Pain is not a lesson. It doesn’t always serve a purpose. Not everything happens for a reason. Not for a good one, anyway. Sometimes the reason behind pain is because someone decided to cheat you, abuse you, run you down, push you around. Pain is pain. It’s the byproduct of a broken, fallen, unfair world. Too often, no good will ever come of it. There will be no silver lining, no bow-tie, no song at the end.

When someone tells me that “God is testing me” or “God is using this pain for my growth” or “This is God’s will”—no. I don’t believe in a God who does that sort of thing. I believe in a God who is just as mad as you are when it hurts. I believe in a God who weeps.

Some storms never pass. I don’t know why. We might know one day. Or not. I only know that if I lessonize your pain, I will lessen you as a human. So I will not moralize. I will not spiritualize. I will not advise or throw cliches. I will hurt with you, alongside. — J.S.

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Why I like living on base while hubby is deployed.

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Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Psalm 51: 11-12