TOPIC INDEXComfort (32)

  1. God Writes Straight With Crooked Lines

    book
    09/18/15
    6 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I stumbled down labyrinthine paths, crawled in and out of cavernous pits, got lost a million times, and somehow ended up a little farther down the road to healing. Yet in all those crooked lines I see the hand of God writing straight.

  2. When God Drags His Feet

    book
    08/12/15
    9 mins
    By Chad Bird
    For most of us, waiting on God is not funny at all. It makes us wonder if he cares. If he has forgotten us. In our darkest hours, many even wonder if the atheists are right, if our prayers are nothing more than sick words vomited into an empty heaven.

  3. Learning Theology in the Devil’s Classroom

    book
    07/08/15
    11 mins
    By Chad Bird
    My best teacher, the instructor who taught me more theology than any other, has been the devil.

  4. Losing that Holy Feeling

    book
    01/19/15
    18 mins
    By Chad Bird
    It’s like I’m eavesdropping on the two friends and the stranger who walks with them. Something about the way they hang their heads, something about the desperation in their voices, and certainly something about the stranger, has me grasping hold of every word as if gold is spilling from their lips.

  5. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Lies

    book
    07/11/13
    8 mins
    By Chad Bird
    On that day the mourners were shocked to discover that behind the veneer of her bright smile lurked a fathomless darkness, whose depths she made manifest only when she despaired of life in this world.

  6. Praying in Tears, Snot, and Screams

    book
    06/27/13
    5 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I was full of pain and empty of speech, babbling like a baby who knows he hurts but can’t explain where or why or what he needs to assuage the anguish. Here was the sheer helplessness of being unable to communicate with God in this moment of deepest desperation.

  7. When Fathers Are Failures

    book
    06/16/13
    3 mins
    By Chad Bird
    I lack the wisdom, and the experience, to counsel those who have been hurt so deeply. There is no pain like the pain of being mistreated by those who, above all others, you expect to love you unconditionally.

  8. Washing Down Antidepressants with Eggnog

    book
    12/13/12
    12 mins
    By Chad Bird
    Perhaps part of the mistake we’ve made is in forgetting that the first Christmas, the actual birthday of Jesus, started out as the worst of times.