tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012252795875411760.post1859220696956120455..comments2023-12-02T00:39:14.668-08:00Comments on Family Gregg: Confessionfamilygregghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06288666767408425096noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9012252795875411760.post-20898483881037535852016-01-05T05:41:52.426-08:002016-01-05T05:41:52.426-08:00Your honesty is so beautiful, Dawn. Welcome to th...Your honesty is so beautiful, Dawn. Welcome to the "regret, distrust, pride" club that can eat into a heart and shred it unmercifully into doubt and bitterness. (Personal experience noted.) In "Calm my Anxious Heart," a book on contentment by Linda Dillow, she tells of a missionary lady who had spent decades among pigmy tribes and early on decided on five principles that would shape her attitude and her spiritual life. One was "Never wish this or that had been otherwise." Just went through that book for the fifth time in ten years because I process slowly; but I have found this to be a truth that helps me. He always brings it all around to His grace and glory. Ps 107<br /><br />Although I would, humanly speaking, change SO many things about the past I know it has all taught me about God in ways I would not have been open to otherwise now. And, you nailed it with your statement about trusting the only one who is trustworthy, our Shepherd, whose voice is promised to us, His sheep ...which is so often so much harder than trusting human voices.<br /><br />Learning through pain that God is WAY bigger and kinder and more patient than I ever knew. Praise be to God!Ashasnanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17729653743332016114noreply@blogger.com