Is pain essential?

Is pain essential? Perhaps pain is more essential than pleasure. I know for me, it brings me to my knees. I draw closer to the throne of truth and grace and LOVE when I am in pain and in grief. It’s not that joy pulls me away from Him. I have been through enough pain...

“do not grow weary”

God is putting this verse in front of me lately:  Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.  Galatians 6:9 Discouragement wells inside of me, after the feeling I’ve been given the “grunt...