How to Know You Have Been Heard When You Haven’t Been Healed? (with video convo)

How long, Lord, how long? You know when you want to pound on God’s chest and ask, “Do you hear me? Will you heal me?” Glenna Marshall, whose book, Praying in Pain, helps answer some of the most challenging questions pain makes us ask. With every page, Praying in Pain brings us into God’s Presence, reveals how He works in suffering, and shows us how to pray while we wait for Him. It’s a joy to welcome Glenna to the farm’s table today… Guest Post by Glenna Marshall It was a pleasure to sit down to talk with Glenna Marshall in the belltower of our 1896 old stone church. Don’t miss our powerful video conversation below… All of my grandparents lived through the Depression of the 1930s. If you’d met my maternal grandmother when she was still living, you’d have quickly understood that she grew up in that infamous era of scarcity and poverty. It wasn’t her age or her stories that gave her away, though. It was her pantry.   One Christmas, my siblings and cousins and I were gathered in my grandmother’s kitchen looking for snacks in her pantry. Laughing incredulously, we sifted through more shelf-stable items than any one person ought to have in their house. Boxes of […]