For those of you who have been around the Bard & Bible long enough, you’ve seen me process some of the hardest times of my life by thinning the lines between the real world and my fictional world to have a conversation between myself and my fictional, well, self from the world of Ecclesia. Well, currently being in the middle of another period with my wife in the hospital for mental health related issues — it seemed time for another one of those little chats.
Yes, I do this for my own act of processing some really intense emotional and spiritual issues going on in me right now — but I also hope that this one, if no other one before it, resonates with someone listening in a way that gives space to be allowed to have those times of anger, frustration, and process in front of God and even with God. I also hope that if nothing else is accomplished here that I might be one voice that says they are proud of you for walking this far into the depths of pain most people won’t ever know. I am proud of you, and as long as you still breathe — God is not done with either of us.
So … let’s do this then.
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Praying for you, Babe, especially now two months after this post. It does feel like we’re in the “even if he does not,” right now, but I’m trusting that He has us. He will show up as the Fourth man in the fire just as he did for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and has, even though we haven’t been delivered yet. We are afflicted, but not crushed; persecuted, but not destroyed. This was beautiful. God is not done with you; God’s not done with me; God’s not done with our family, and I believe He’s going to make the enemy repay double for what we’ve suffered this summer. Thank you for being faithful with this part of our family’s struggle.