Tremendous suffering is the normal experience of being in this world. Beauty and love and joy are normal, but so is suffering. Alan Noble is a professor at Oklahoma Baptist University and has written a fantastic book on the burden and beautiful gift of living. In, On Getting Out of Bed, Alan Noble encourages his readers to know that God loves them and that they are a part of his good creation intended to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
On this episode of the podcast, Alan and I discuss the joys and challenges of living. We talk about how suffering is norma. Hopefully you can be reminded that just because your life is hard, that does not make you broken or unique. Life is often challenging, but you can and should continue to live abundantly even when you might not feel like it. You can’t always trust your feelings. You don’t always feel like getting out of bed. Sometimes, all you can do is the next thing, but even if the next thing is just getting out of bed, you can even do that for the glory of God and the good of others.
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