The Comfort of God

The comfort of God is what happens when you risk allowing yourself to feel your sadness or your grief or your anger in God's presence. Let me close with a personal example: When one of my children is off, out of my sight, doing something at a friend's house, riding their bike, whatever, I often get hit with a jolt of anxiety that something bad is going to happen to them. What I'm really anxious about is that Eli would feel immense helplessness and or aloneness and terror. If I let myself feel those feelings of helplessness and being utterly alone when I'm in need and the terror that results, I will soon realize that I felt these feelings as