Category Archives: Find Joy & Peace When it’s Hard
Practical Remedies Against Melancholy – By Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith was born in the 18th century and writes about his solutions to melancholy...
A Hopeful Song for When You Don’t Feel Strong
Sometimes songs say it better than anything else. As long as God surrounds us with...
Tell Him What You’ve Never Dared to Say Out Loud
You can end up having all you desire, yet end up lonely anyway. You can...
I Wish I Was Fearless
This is a little poem on being fearless that I wrote to accompany this painting....
What We Can Learn From Birds
One thing I like about birds is that when the day is windy, they go...
What I Learned From My 90-year-old Friend
When we got to know each other we were surprised at how similar we were,...
Finding Beauty in Grieving
Grieving over someone who died is painful. But in this experience there are also places...
Turning Sadness into Joy – Vincent van Gogh’s Life
He was very poor, got heartbroken several times, got betrayed by friends, had a complicated...
Practice Resurrection – My Favorite Poem by Wendell Berry
Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have...
How to Alter the Past
This letter is one of the most interesting and thought-provoking things I’ve read so far....
You Are Alive
“And what is it like: to be alive in this maybe one place of all...
Does It Have To Be So Hard?
Jesus wants us to stick with Him through the awkward learning parts so we can...
Is God Here?
We all wonder from time to time, is God here? Is he present in our...
The Man Who Turned Pain into Ecstatic Beauty
Dr. Who is a time traveler and in this episode he takes the painter Vincent...
Light
Find my way back to the light through light
When Waiting is Difficult – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually—let them grow, let...
Van Gogh’s Advice on Dealing With Suffering
Vincent van Gogh suffered a lot in his lifetime. He was very poor, didn’t have...
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