Read Letting Go of Disappointments and Painful Losses Online
Authors: Pam Vredevelt
We look on the woes of the world. We hear the whole creation, to use Paul’s language, groaning and laboring in pain. We see a few good men vainly striving to help the world into life and light; and in our sense of the awful magnitude of the problem and of our inability to do much, we cry out: “Where’s God? How can He bear this? Why doesn’t He do something?” And there is but one answer that satisfies: and that is the Incarnation and the Cross. God could not bear it. He has done something. He has done the utmost compatible with moral wisdom. He has entered into the fellowship of our suffering and misery and at infinite cost has taken the world upon His heart.
B
ORDEN
P. B
ROWNE
“This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life.”
J
OHN
3:16,
T
HE MESSAGE
1.
Billy Graham, Billy Graham:
The Inspirational Writings
(Dallas: Word, 1995).
2.
Dr. Pamela Reeve,
Parables of the Forest
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1989).
1.
Pam Vredevelt,
Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1997), 103–4.
2.
Ibid., 104–5.
3.
Ibid., 15–20.
1.
Pam Vredevelt,
Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
(Sisters, Ore.:Multnomah, 1997), 23–6.
2.
Ibid., 31–3.
3.
Ibid., 26–8.
4.
Ibid., 33–4.
1.
Questions adapted from Alan D. Wright,
The God Moment Principle
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1999), 14.
2.
These words were frequently spoken by my great-aunt Mildred Williamson.
1.
Pam Vredevelt,
Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1997), 161–3.
1.
Jean Lush and Pam Vredevelt,
Women and Stress
(Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1992), 17.
2.
Pam Vredevelt,
Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1997), 158–9.
3.
Pam Vredevelt,
Espresso for a Woman’s Spirit
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 2000), 161–73.
1.
Pam Vredevelt,
Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1997), 115.
2.
Pam Vredevelt,
Espresso for a Woman’s Spirit
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 2000), 193–4.
3.
Ibid., 116–7.
1.
Emily Perl Kingley, from an October 1992 “Dear Abby” column appearing in the
Oregonian.
2.
Pam Vredevelt,
Angel Behind the Rocking Chair
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1997), 112–4.
1.
Pam Vredevelt,
Espresso for Your Spirit: Hope and Humor for Pooped Out Parents
(Sisters, Ore.: Multnomah, 1999), 124–6.
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