Bitterness I have struggled with a chronic illness for many years. It's been hard. I've felt grief, disappointment, weariness and isolation. And I have a confession: I have been bitter. Bitter about my situation. Bitter about increased relational difficulty. There has definitely been that soul's cry of 'Why, oh why, God! How could you let this happen to me?' Another confession: It didn't take chronic illness to first introduce me to bitterness. It didn't even take hard life circumstances to fan it to flame in my heart. Yes, I've been bitter in the mundane: about being caught in the rain; or about that cold I get every winter; or about being slighted by a friend. I just need to remember it doesn't take harsh suffering to make me guilty of bitterness. What is bitterness? It involves an angry and unforgiving heart. It is an anger being fueled into intense animosity. Bitterness exaggerates wrongs done to us. Bitt...
Pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!” -C.S Lewis, The Last Battle