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What True Comfort Looks Like: It Doesn’t Whitewash Pain

Because we are assured of eternal life in heaven, we can endure anything in this temporal life on earth. When we know our end is glorious, we can joyfully and willingly live for him no matter what our circumstances. This is true comfort, and it is unchanging.

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"When people keep assuring me that I’ll have a positive outcome, it feels like my pain is being dismissed." Vaneetha Rendall Risner

Rejoicing in God and His Gift of Joy

First, joy takes time. Joy is not fast food. It comes, I would say, as a by-product of living a savored life, of having time and taking time to “smell the flowers,” as we used to say. There is this old monastic insight about living a joy-filled life. Take time, take at least some time each day, to do one thing at-a-time.

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