Christian Living
December 21, 2013
Tragically, Molly Greene drowned on July 17, 2019, while vacationing with her family in the Bahamas. Jesus Street is republishing this story in her memory. She […]
December 12, 2013
photo by Joan Whipple Trimble (click her name to see more photos) In calling people to deepen their intimacy with God, writer Pringle Franklin shares remarkable examples […]
December 3, 2013
You Prayed for What? by Sarah Hemingway As a Marine family, we were living in Quantico, Virginia and had received orders to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. […]
November 21, 2013
by Pringle Franklin Give the past to Jesus Christ. He will take care of your mistakes. (Romans 3:24) Give the future to your Heavenly Father; […]
November 8, 2013
"Affliction makes God appear to be absent for a time, more absent than a dead man, more absent than light in the utter darkness of a cell. A kind of horror submerges the whole soul. During this absence, there is nothing to love. What is terrible is that if, in this darkness where there is nothing to love, the soul ceases to love, God's absence becomes final. The soul has to go on loving in the emptiness, or at least to go on wanting to love, though it may only be with an infinitesimal part of itself. Then one day, God will come to show himself to this soul and to reveal the beauty of the world to it, as in the case of Job. But if the soul stops loving it falls, even in this life, into something almost equivalent to hell."
philosopher Simone Weil in "Love of God and Affliction"
