Prodigal: Billy Graham was an interesting man.
Me: Yes, there ain’t no slack in his rope.
Prodigal: Maybe you can share about others also.
This is from the book Reaching for the Invisible God by Philip Yancey
For many people, it takes the jolt of tragedy, illness, or death to create an existential crisis of faith. At such a moment, we want clarity; God wants our trust. A Scottish preacher in the last century lost his wife suddenly, and after his death he preached an unusually personal sermon. He admitted in the message that he did not understand this life of ours. But still less could he understand how people facing loss could abandon faith. “Abandon it for what!” he said. “You people in the sunshine may believe the faith, but we in the shadow must believe it. We have nothing else.”
Proverbs 11:14
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
