new church life: march/april 2016
(God) is happy to sit
with us when we’re too
tired to do anything,
steady us when the
room seems to be
spinning, hand us a
cup of clean water, and
let us rest our weary
head on His shoulder.
showed Abraham all his descendents,
which are all of us.1 So we aren’t really
up for scintillating conversation. God
doesn’t care. He’s happy to sit with us
when we’re too tired to do anything,
steady us when the room seems to be
spinning, hand us a cup of clean water,
and let us rest our weary head on His
shoulder.
“Come unto Me, all you who are
weary and heavily burdened, and I will
give you rest. Take My yoke upon you
and learn of Me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest
for your souls. For My yoke is easy and
My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:2830)
Nadine Rogers is a psychiatrist living in Kathmandu, Nepal,
where she and her husband, Rajendra Budhethoki, are raising
12 children – 10 orphans and two biological – in the New Life
Children’s Home. This is the orphanage founded by her brother,
Kent, and supported by the Loving Arms Mission. Contact:
[email protected]
1 This is a reference to a song by Rich Mullins, Sometimes By Step, which includes the line, “Sometimes I think
of Abraham, how one star he saw was lit just for me.”
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