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\"05-21-16<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 How are you feeling today Prodigal?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 I am feeling a little sad.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 Sadness is something we all feel my friend.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 It helps to know that I am not alone.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 You are not.\u00a0 In fact Jesus talks about mourning.<\/p>\n

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In Billy Graham’s book The Secret of Happiness he explores mourning.<\/p>\n

Let us begin with the word mourning itself.\u00a0 It means to feel deep sorrow, to show great concern, or to deplore some existing wrong.”\u00a0 It implies that if we are to live life on the higher plane then we are to be sensitive, sympathetic, tenderhearted, and alert to the needs of others and the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps we can see its meaning more clearly by thinking about its opposite.\u00a0 What is the opposite of mourning?\u00a0 Some might say it would be joy–and that is correct to a certain degree.\u00a0 But more than that, the opposite of mourning is insensitivity, lack of caring, unconcern, callousness, indifference.\u00a0 When I mourn it is because my heart has been touched by the suffering and heartache of others–or even by my own heartache.\u00a0 When I do not care and am indifferent, then I do not mourn.\u00a0 The person who mourns is a person with a tender and sensitive heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only God knows I\u00a0have a cried a wailing sorrow that could only be comforted by answered prayers of God’s grace.\u00a0 My eyes could not see the Lord of comfort but my spirit was receiving the comfort that I was desperately needing in the time of sorrow.\u00a0 The life we live is not without the tears of sorrow, and the cries of agony.\u00a0 The life we live is not without the peace beyond understanding that is given to us like a river in the dessert that we run to after our soul has been covered by the sands of pain.<\/p>\n

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Isaiah 14:3<\/p>\n

And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou was made to serve.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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