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Finding Hope When Life Feels Less Than Hopeful
Have you ever felt you would surely break under the weight of all the hard things in your life? Have you felt all your strength was gone amid hopeless circumstances, and it made you think that if God didn’t move soon, you couldn’t do one more thing? Even though the sun hadn’t come up yet, my day was already off to a chaotic and stressful start. A long night of little sleep lay behind me, and a full day of tackling life’s problems in my current season lay ahead. Even a simple task like walking my dog seemed heavy as I grabbed my coat and headed outside on a crisp…
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Planning for the Unexpected
Key Verse: “They led him out to crucify him. They forced a man coming in from the country, who was passing by, to carry Jesus’s cross. He was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.” Mark 15:20-21 (CSB) Life is not only full of unexpected pleasures but also full of unexpected heartache and disappointment. Unfortunately, when you start your day reading scripture and saying a prayer it doesn’t serve as a guarantee that life won’t take you by surprise and lead you around some unexpected twists and turns. “In this world, you will have trouble, but be of good cheer I have overcome the world” was Jesus’s way…
