by Neal Eckert | Mar 16, 2017 | Dealing With Pain, God's Love, Uncategorized
Recent movie release, The Shack, takes viewers on a heartbreaking pursuit of healing when Mack’s youngest daughter is abducted and murdered in a remote shack. God helps Mack work through suffocating grief and to find hope despite tragedy. But God doesn’t...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 25, 2017 | Children, Dealing With Pain, Heaven
Dear Jeffrey, You would’ve been four the year I was born and my only older brother. That’s not how it turned out, huh? It’s crazy to think that you died during birth, unable to experience even a breath outside the womb. You were only a word frozen in time to me as a...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 22, 2017 | Dealing With Pain, Heaven, Prosperity Gospel, The Church
Dear God, If you don’t want me to flip out, you need to do your job. I have a standard of living to keep up. With love, Your Spoiled American Child Difficult Questions “Where do babies came from?” I asked my mom. “You’ll find out someday,” she said. “But when?”...
by Neal Eckert | Dec 10, 2016 | Dealing With Pain
The saying “misery loves company” has been around for centuries. That phrase is often used in a negative context but there is some truth in it that isn’t negative. It could also could be said that “misery needs company” or that suffering needs fellow sufferers....
