God's Comfort Will Not Fail to Comfort

Have you needed comfort and all the well-meaning attempts of friends and family just fell short?  It isn't because people don't care, but it's because they don't have the ability to go deeply enough to touch the source of your loss or pain.

My mother, also a pastor's wife, was comforting someone who had lost her mate.  Mother was offering hope and encouragement by focusing the woman on heaven and that her husband was no longer in pain.  The woman harshly responded, "Well that's not helping me one bit!" and slammed the phone down hanging up on my mother.  My mother cared deeply about this woman's pain, and tried to offer comfort. It's hard to know what to do and what to say sometimes.

 

The best we can do is point someone to the comfort God gives in times of pain and sorrow.  Only God can really reach our deepest needs and heal our greatest hurts.  Only God can literally replace intense pain with peace.  He can calm the storm whether it's on the raging sea, or deep within our hearts.  

This is another of the cards I made at Linda Wright's card-making event.  Visit her website for contact information and sign up for her classes.  You will love them.  I was crazy about this color combination--Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso and Baja Breeze.  The three simple panels offer tons of color interest and the flowers add the perfect artistic touch.  All supplies are, of course, Stampin' Up!  

As a pastor's wife myself, I have many occasions for sending sympathy cards and offering what comfort to people I can.  Yet, ultimately, God is the healer and my best gift in such times is praying that His comfort will shower down upon my friend.  Thank you, Linda, for another great inspiration!