Being in loving community with others means you share in their joys and their sorrows. Sometimes the sorrows come in tsunami waves and all you can do is care, pray, and be present. Good and decent people deal with financial, emotional, and physical suffering all around us and it is easy to lose heart. The news seems to be only tragedy and heartbreaking sadness. What can be redeemed of all of this suffering? A song called “The Hurt and the Healer” by MercyMe resonated when I first heard it over a decade ago but recently that same song has ministers deeper in my soul. I was not aware that Bart Millard and Andrew Farley had co-written a book about this issue of Jesus being the healer when life hurts. The lyrics are powerful… Why?The question that is never far awayThe healing doesn’t come from the explainedJesus please don’t let this go in vain I can’t explain why things happen. Sometimes it is the consequences
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