A Little More Perspective

Posted on September 21, 2007 
Filed Under Parenting, Personal, Spiritual Life

The other day as I took my morning walk, I found myself reminding the Lord that “my theology compels me” to think a certain way. I mulled over a difficult circumstance and decided that my actions need to be informed by my “thoughts about God.” In that regard, how do I respond to the unexpected?

When life brings hardship, loss and difficulty, what do I do?

How about you? What do you do when things don’t turn out as you planned? How do you react to adversity?

Although not planned, the program for today is in may ways a continuation of the theme introduced yesterday. The late Barbara Johnson was a best-selling author and very popular speaker. In this conversation she describes how her faith allowed her to rediscover joy after experiencing several painful tragedies.

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3 Responses to “A Little More Perspective”

  1. W. Mark Whitlock on September 21st, 2007 4:13 pm

    I was greatly convicted by Randy Pausch’s “last” lecture at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is dying of cancer and retiring from teaching. In his presentation, he talked about brick walls. He said that “brick walls are there for a reason–to show us how badly we want something.” Another keeper quote: “Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.” As he faces death, he has a different perspective on adversity. I encourage you to give it a listen. It was a shot in the arm for me today.

  2. Admin on September 23rd, 2007 8:42 pm

    Thanks, Mark. We’ll check out Randy’s story – sounds exceptionally inspiring!

  3. greg litfin on October 3rd, 2007 6:46 pm

    i was listening to focuos on the family on radio sation UCB:87.6. the subject wasan on air relay at 0.430 to0.5.00.thursday4/10/07. local time kelvingrove,brisbane,qld. australia.reguarding “the jenkins family.divorced 5years and restoration of the family.sir as i listened it was a very real challenge to me all the principles and steps involved as i listened THE LORD CONVICTED ME about my relation ship with HIM.and the LORD JESUS CHRIST.under conviction of THE HOLY SPIRIT i realized afresh THOSE SAME PRINCIPLES AND STEPS IN REGUARDS MARRIAGE ARE THE SAME.so as i finished listening i simply come humbly TO THE LORD ASKED HIS FORGIVNESS AND THANKED HIM FOR RESTORATION OF HIS FELLOWSHIP WITH A REAL COMMITMENT TO HIM THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRISTAND THE HOLY SPIRIT,S LEADING DAY AND NIGHT. as idid i remembered GOD IS A HOLY GOD AND A JEALEOUS GOD IN THE TRUE CONTEXT OF HIS WORD.THER IS MORE TO SHARE BUT I WANT TO THANK THE LORD FOR LISTENING TO THE BROADCAST ON RADIO.PS. IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRICLE FOR THE COMPLETE RESTORATION OF THE JENKINS MARRIAGE PLEASE PASS ON MY THANKS FOR THEIR INTERVIEW AND STORY.GREG LITFIN.

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