GOD IS WITH US
We do everything we can to avoid and escape pain but to live without pain is to live half alive. Pain and joy run together. When we cut ourselves off from pain, we have unwittingly cut ourselves off from joy as well. And what about the present? My favorite preacher in history is Alexander McClaren, and he tells a marvelous story about when he was fifteen years old in a village outside of Glasgow, and he was sent to work in order to earn his way to college and to find resources for his family. His father walked him to work the first day and they went by a ravine in which people said that there were evil spirits and anyone who walked through the ravine would be invested with those evil spirits. When Alexander McClaren got to Glasgow, he realized that he was going to have to go back through that ravine on his way home. It worried him…
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