41 Quotes by Cindee Snider Re

Pushing our pain aside...diminishes our human experience.

Often when we seek comfort, what we long for is healing. If God removed the pain, frustration, discomfort or illness each time we sought His comfort, would we be drawn to Him out of love or simply opportunity?

Could illness and pain hold greater purpose than we imagine?

Maybe it's less about what we can do than about how much we can love. More about walking with others through the pain than seeking a solution for the pain. Maybe presence is our greater purpose.

Is it possible that there are things we can only learn in the darkness, in hardship, in suffering?

Each of us has a story – a unique, valuable, integral part of the whole story of God. Your story is important. It matters.

Could our plodding, our daily persevering through a life we didn’t expect, don’t want and didn’t choose, actually bring blessing?

What if illness – the stripping away of our health, our dreams, our understanding of who we are and what our future holds – is really a gift – God offering Himself to us unencumbered by all the noise, all the things that clutter our hearts and so easily fill our days? Because what if that quiet, stripped-away space is where hope is found? Where God leans in close whispering love to our weary souls until it becomes as familiar as the beating of our own hearts?

God has graciously sewn laughter into our days, bright moments tucked among the shadows of illness and pain, and while those moments don’t change our circumstances, they can lessen our pain and shift our hearts toward joy.