It is impossible to avoid disappointment. To live as a human in a fallen world is to experience deficit between expectation and experience. A strategy of avoidance is to eliminate expectation or reject experience. Avoidance is deficient and self-defeating because it nurtures cynicism and refuses to accept the gifts God brings to our lives. Instead …
Disappointment is a part of this world. We can’t avoid it, we will have it; our choice is what to do with it. Disappointment may not be able to be gone from our life, but it can be invested. Jesus demonstrated disappointment with the actions of both friends, foes, and those who were neither – …
David Robertson, a Presbyterian pastor who has taken up residence in Australia a year ago or so is offering a few tentative observations and encouragements for Australian Presbyterians, and Australian Christians. You only see situations with an outsiders eyes for a limited time, so his perspective is timely, measured, and encouraging. David’s experience is such …
A tendency is to run away from pain, and to think that wisdom is learning to recognise pain in order that we might escape it sooner and more effectively. The wisdom that we learn at the foot of the cross is that we are free to move toward pain. It is a wisdom and freedom …
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