Experience taught me that denial brings comfort.
… Jesus demanded truth.
Experience taught me to reject pain.
… Jesus challenged me to embrace it.
Experience taught me not to trust.
… Jesus asked me to risk.
Experience taught me to expect rejection.
… Jesus said, "I love you."
Experience taught me I had no value.
… Jesus paid his life for me.
CLA
Quill, I wish I had this kind of faith. I have just never been able to be this sure of anything, not even an afterlife......I believe in something, but just have never been able to define it. I have always been afraid that maybe this is all we get.