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Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter (Or How to Encourage the Afflicted)
Posted on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: 1 John, believers in pain, believers who suffer, encouraging the afflicted, Jeremiah, Job, where is God when it hurts

Anna Karenina opens with this line: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” That’s a poetic way of observing that pain is isolating. When life is good, it’s easy to feel at one with others and to see one’s place in the world. When life takes a “Job-ian” …[ read more ]