Welcome to this melloncollie day. Its thursday and it might as well be rainy and grey. It just should be. Maybe thats just because I am listening to the Counting Crows, but its not really. It just seems that today was a slow rolling day with nothing behind it. I woke up, showered, did my devotions and went to Village Church and met with pastor Jared. It was cool 'cause we hadn't met one on one in a while, so we caught up. Then I went to lunch and then work.

This is what kicked me in the face today: My friend Chris and his wife were expecting a baby March 1st. At 8 months, Nathan was stillborn. The cord wrapped around his neck apparently. So sad. How do you say you're sorry? How do you share in pain like that? 2 Corinthians talks a lot about comfort and suffering. 1:3-6 and 4:16-18 especially. Romans 12:15 talks about how we are to mourn with those who mourn. It just seems such a mounting task. One that I desire to do but the question is how? How can I comfort Chris and Dawn or someone else when I have no idea what they have gone through? And then it strikes me. The one who is in me has another name other than Holy Spirit. The great counselor. Yeah. I have to be dependent on the Holy Spirit to comfort people through me, or through my prayers. It can't be me, it has to be the Holy Spirit through me.

Anyway, I hope anyone who reads this will pray for Chris and Dawn. They haven't even been married a year. Man. Yeah, I'm out.



"Prayer is non-negotiable in ministry" Pastor Jared.