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Life is not always easy. Homeschooling is not always easy. In fact Authentic Easton Stick Jersey , sometimes it’s downright HARD. I love reading 2 Corinthians during difficult times.


God does not look down at us and think, “My goodness! What a whiner!“ Read this passage to see how God REALLY feels about our hard times. What does he want to give us? Not much ambiguity here…


The Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted Authentic Drue Tranquill Jersey , it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7


God wants to comfort us. He cares. He wants to give us a hug, like a parent hugs a hurting child. Now read it again, and see what God wants us to DO with our comfort.


The Father of compassion and the God of all comfort Authentic Nasir Adderley Jersey , who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, whichproduces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm Authentic Jerry Tillery Jersey , because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7.


You know how some people will say, “I understand“ but they really don’t? The truth is that God DOES understand. He knows exactly how much the heart will cry before the tears spill out. He knows our inmost being. Read about how Paul feels, and see if it sounds familiar.


We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that wedespaired of life itself. Indeed Authentic Mike Williams Jersey , we felt we had received the sentence of death.2 Corinthians 1:8-9


Regardless of the circumstances, pressure and despair and human heart-felt pain can help two people with different kinds of hurts understand each other. One friend may not know exactly what the other is going through, but if they both know deep pain, they can come to an understanding with each other, and carry each others burdens. Why do these horrible feelings occur? Why will difficulty happen?


But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril Authentic Derwin James Jersey , and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many. 2 Corinthians 1:9-11


Here is the plan:

Hard times Whine to God, he understands Receive comfort from the Lord Rely on God, not ourselves Have hope

Too bad that’s not an EASY 5-step process. But at least it’s something for Homeschooling!

Today is like many of the summer days I spent at my grandparents' house in Indiana?except I am writing, instead of reading and I am sitting in a chair on my deck, instead of on a branch in a tree growing in front of my grandparents' house. But the wind is blowing gently under the umbrella Authentic Joey Bosa Jersey , just like it blew through the leaves so many years ago.

I don't remember how many hours I spent in that tree.

It has been a long time since I felt the wind blow through its leaves. My grandparents sold the house and moved off of the farm the year that I started college. I probably did not climb the tree for the last few years that my grandparents lived there.

I was not a tomboy. In fact, that tree is the only one that I have ever climbed (unless you count the one I tried to climb and got stuck in). It was the perfect tree for a girlie girl to climb. There was one branch that grew straight out from the tree. If I reached up high above my head, I could grasp the branch with both hands and hoist myself up to a much thicker extension of the trunk that grew at about shoulder height. Holding the branch, I "walked" up the trunk until I could swing around and sit in the saddle created by the trunk and the branch. I reached for another branch above my head to pull myself to my feet. An even higher branch allowed me to pull myself to a sitting position on the branch that I had first used to pull myself into the tree. The tree had so many perfectly positioned branches that I could climb a little bit higher in the same fashion, but I usually didn't.

I was not actually interested in climbing the tree. I did not climb for the sake of climbing, but because I wanted to sit on the one branch that was thick enough to be comfortable Authentic Melvin Gordon III Jersey , lean against the smooth bark of the trunk, and feel the gentle breeze blow through the leaves and through my hair. I usually had a book in hand, too, so climbing higher than my branch was impractical.

I am not sure why, but I never seemed to go to my grandparents' house prepared. I always seemed to be searching for something to read. My grandmother loved decorating. She filled scrapbooks with magazine clippings archiving the year's worth of current home fashions. Had she belonged to my generation, she would probably be a marketing expert. The tools of her passion Authentic Philip Rivers Jersey , women's magazines, fueled my passion. She saved years of back issues of magazines and many of them published one or two fictional pieces per issue.

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