Your pain can bless hurting people

P.O Box 1540, Albany Western Australia 6331
Phone: (08) 98 418 418
E-mail: abl-alb@omninet.net.au

Your Pain Can Bless Hurting People!
Friend, emotional pain hits us head-on in such forms as disappointment, unanswered prayer, fears, guilt or constant stress about our future, loneliness, and general unhappiness. I know you have heard the questions: Why do I experience trouble and failure over and over in my life? Why are my relationships with others so disappointing? Why doesn't God answer my prayers? Why am I afraid of the future? Why am I just basically unhappy with my life? You may do what I do-listen a lot because I do care about people. Deep down in their hearts, people wonder if they are viewed as "whiners" or not tough enough to overcome the darkness that comes into our lives from time to time. Answers come to us like these. "Have faith", "you just have to trust better", "read your Bible regularly", and "improve your prayer life." But sometimes nothing seems to help and we don't think anyone wants to hear it anymore. Well, I have discovered an amazing truth, something you probably already knew a long time ago! You can use your pain as an avenue of God's blessing for someone else in great emotional pain. You can give compassion and briefly tell a person what has helped you the most in a dark, dark time. In fact, you can light a faith candle to light the soul of another sufferer. I know, because through my own battles in life God has often used that suffering to make a difference in another sufferer's life. Friend, how about the painful experiences of your life right now? Have they made you more willing to hold the hand of a fellow struggler? I'm sure the answer is yes! If you are interested, I would be happy to send you a helpful (free) booklet written by my friend Randy Becton. This booklet is titled "You're Not Alone" and it provides some practical answers that may help you come alongside a wounded spirit in the strength God provides. Remember the five "Why?" questions with which I began this essay? Each one of them involves a complicated pain. But with God all things are possible and it is His compassionate character that precedes our efforts to encourage someone in pain. He goes with us and before us. E-mail me at abl-alb@omninet.net.au or you may write to me at: P.O. Box 1540, Albany, WA 6331. You can also Telephone me on: (08) 98 418 418. Simply ask for "You're Not Alone" and we will mail it to you. Make the most of every sense; glory in all of the pleasures and beauty which the world reveals to you. Helen Keller

Your Pain Can Bless Hurting People!

Friend, emotional pain hits us head-on in such forms as disappointment, unanswered prayer, fears, guilt or constant stress about our future, loneliness, and general unhappiness.

I know you have heard the questions:

Why do I experience trouble and failure over and over in my life?
Why are my relationships with others so disappointing?
Why doesn't God answer my prayers?
Why am I afraid of the future?
Why am I just basically unhappy with my life?

You may do what I do-listen a lot because I do care about people. Deep down in their hearts, people wonder if they are viewed as "whiners" or not tough enough to overcome the darkness that comes into our lives from time to time. Answers come to us like these. "Have faith", "you just have to trust better", "read your Bible regularly", and "improve your prayer life." But sometimes nothing seems to help and we don't think anyone wants to hear it anymore.

Well, I have discovered an amazing truth, something you probably already knew a long time ago! You can use your pain as an avenue of God's blessing for someone else in great emotional pain. You can give compassion and briefly tell a person what has helped you the most in a dark, dark time. In fact, you can light a faith candle to light the soul of another sufferer. I know, because through my own battles in life God has often used that suffering to make a difference in another sufferer's life.

Friend, how about the painful experiences of your life right now? Have they made you more willing to hold the hand of a fellow struggler? I'm sure the answer is yes!

If you are interested, I would be happy to send you a helpful (free) booklet written by my friend Randy Becton. This booklet is titled "You're Not Alone" and it provides some practical answers that may help you come alongside a wounded spirit in the strength God provides. Remember the five "Why?" questions with which I began this essay? Each one of them involves a complicated pain. But with God all things are possible and it is His compassionate character that precedes our efforts to encourage someone in pain. He goes with us and before us.

E-mail me at abl-alb@omninet.net.au or you may write to me at: P.O. Box 1540, Albany, WA 6331. You can also Telephone me on: (08) 98 418 418. Simply ask for "You're Not Alone" and we will mail it to you.

Make the most of every sense; glory in all of the pleasures and beauty which the world reveals to you. Helen Keller