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“I hate the Proverbs 31 Woman,” said my friend. “She makes me feel like such a loser. I will never measure up to her standard. I don’t even like reading those verses because they make me depressed.” Why talk about this woman if she’s so unattainable? I believe God included Proverbs 31:10-31 in the Bible…
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What makes us groan? Maybe we groan when we get out of bed. Or when we work with a difficult person on a project. Or when we look at the bathroom scale. Or when our favourite team loses. But there’s a deeper groaning—the groaning of the soul that suffers. We might say, “I honestly don’t…
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How can we rejoice when we suffer? Where is hope in chronic illness or gripping anxiety? How do we persevere with uncertain finances, insufferable coworkers, struggling loved ones, or whatever else we face? In Romans 5:3-5 Paul doesn’t say, “Just deal with it. Toughen up!” He says, “Not only so, but we also glory in…
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Tears filled my heart as I smoothed back my mother’s hair. Tears of sadness for the pain that immobilized her in bed. Tears of gratitude that I could care for the practical needs of the one who had sacrificed so much to care for mine. And tears of grief that this one who had always…
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Welcome. My name is Annette Ford, author of The Gift of Tears. I’m glad to have you as a visitor to this blog about my new book. I invite you in The Gift of Tears to look with God’s perspective at the gift of tearful times that He gives you and to see the beauty He is…
Annette Ford, Author & Speaker 