August Blog
Peace and Pain
By Bruce McLeod
Did you know that peace and pain can co-exist? They can live together in harmony.
Hi, I’m Bruce. I’m The Widows Project’s leader of the outreach to widowed men, and I’m here in the eastern foothills of the North Cascades of Washington to make that point, because this is where I found it to be true – really and truly, for the first time.
You see, when my wife away in late December of 2017, I was shattered in every way, shape, and form. My mind was shattered. I couldn’t remember the simplest things. My health was shattered. My emotions were really shattered! She was the world to me – Cheri was. My will was gone, and I hurt like anything.
I needed God’s peace. He said, “You’ll find me when you seek Me with all of your heart.” So, I put up with the winter in Cheri’s dream house, but by spring, her fingerprints, which were all over that home, had gotten to be heavy, heavy on my heart. And I was having trouble finding peace.
So that next summer I came to the mountains. Every two weeks I was here, and I found God, and I found His peace – in the midst of the pain. Right here.
And so, I have kept up this practice. I come every third week instead of every other week, in the summer for 6 months, because this is a place where I can be rebuilt. God is rebuilding me! He’s changing me into what was His original idea of me in the first place, and it took all that pain to drive me to seek Him with all my heart. Find Him I did.
Please, find your own place of peace. Find your own place of processing – your own place where the Lord will become real to you and bring you peace in the midst of your pain.
Peace and pain can live together in harmony.
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