Posts by D. Ray Davis

If you focus your attention on time itself, you will clearly see that it is slipping away. Eternity is in our hearts for a reason. And sundials are solemn for…

Yes, I’m going there. Put on your seatbelt. Candidly, I’ve had some of these thoughts since this Christian man married a beautiful Christian woman in 1983. I was reluctant to…

“Jesus suffered ‘not that we might not suffer,’ wrote George MacDonald, ‘but that our sufferings might be like his.’” Elizabeth Elliot, The Path of Loneliness Let’s be honest and transparent…

“There is immeasurable comfort in the revealing that the Son of God suffers with us in our suffering, is afflicted in all our affliction, is touched with the feeling of…

The week Kim died, I said to several people around me that I did not want to dishonor Kim or God in the way I responded to loss. In time,…

“We should never forget that redemption, the world’s greatest blessing, is the fruit of the world’s greatest sorrow.” J. R. Miller, The Ministry of Comfort In Be Still, My Soul,…

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have…

If you determine to face your loss, torturous grief will begin to show up as delightful gratitude. After all, as J. R. Miller states in The Ministry of Comfort, “...love…

I'm going to be careful, I promise. You didn’t think I was going to talk about such delicate topics. Did you? Well, grief forces a lot of decisions, topics, and…

As time progressed, I needed to wade through a few more boxes and drawers of memories. I was cleaning house and saving important stuff. Stuff may just seem like stuff,…