When Hope Runs Out – A Christian Reflection on Reaching the Edge of Despair

There are moments in life when suffering presses so heavily on the soul that it doesn’t seem sustainable. Scripture doesn’t gloss over these times. The Psalms repeatedly describe a heart overwhelmed, a spirit poured out like water, bones out of joint, strength dried up like a potsherd. There’s no alternative to the final, irreversible path […]

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The Valley of Dry Bones: Ezekiel’s Vision of Despair and Divine Promise

Ezekiel stands in a valley choked with death and bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14. This is not your average graveyard. It’s a blinding vision of hopelessness, where life has been reduced to its most basic form. Bleached, scattered and broken bones stretch endlessly before him, remnants of a vibrant people now reduced to a skeletal wasteland.

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