My blog is about Gods grace and about finding treasures in the darkness. It's about growing in my faith when it's hard and the darkness wants to consume me. We found out that our grandbabies Jayden and Brooklyn were diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder called Sanfilippo Syndrome and will possibly only live a short life. It's about our hope in God, finding him faithful and being amazed by grace.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Becoming a comforter

I received a beautiful email from my sweet and dear friend Audrey.  She made a beautiful smilebox greeting card for me.....it was full of comfort and love.  What a unique and priceless gift.  She reminded me of some words that my mom shared with her to comfort her when she was grieving a tremendous loss.  She said, That God doesn't comfort us to make us comfortable but to make us comforters. 

2 Corinthians 1:3-4
Praise to the God of All Comfort
 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

So a great reminder to me in processing through another loss, that God has great purpose and uses loss in our lives so that we are equipped to comfort others when they are in need.  He seems to be equipping me again and again. I can choose to say thank you Jesus for showing me and teaching me to become a comforter. It seems to be a natural flow for some.  It doesn't always come naturally for others.  But God does the equipping when we have open hearts to hear Him speak.  I pray for an open heart for God to do His work in me.  To do the equipping, the teaching so I can be an encourager to someone else, like Audrey was for me and my mom was for her, back 20 some years ago. 
 
 
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