Do you know yet how much Abba-Father cares about you? As your Perfect Father, he cries when you cry, with tears. He feels the pain that parents feel when their child suffers. He longs to give you healing. Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people. (Jeremiah 9:1 NIV) When my daughter, Tammy, was sixteen, she had to endure major back surgery to straighten her spine. As her parents, Ralph and I endured the waiting room with some difficulty, waiting for assurance that everything had gone well. Sometimes my mind drifted to the operating room and I imagined her lying there with her insides exposed and bleeding. Quickly I diverted my attention—it was too much! However, this was nothing compared to how I felt during her first few days of […] Read More
