Comments on: No More Tears Left

By: Oksana Germakovski

Oksana Germakovski — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:00:40 +0000

I looked up this article after I listened to the preface to What’s So Amazing About Grace? It looks like Russia didn’t show any miracle of grace to the materialistic world. It is both materialistic and sick with envy.

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:03:15 +0000

Hello, Thank you for you ministry and your work!
I’m against this war and this government, and have a lot of Ukrainian friends whom I’m trying to help right now.
Mostly agree with this article, but as a historian can say, it was twisted a lot of fact of history (1- Babi Yar- arranged by Nazi but fulfilled by Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. 2 – gave up its nuclear weapons (Before it was Russian territory, weapons belong to Russian, they just pull it from not-Russian anymore place. And etc. )
Please check your sources.
I support Ukrainian with all my heart, I’m just against one-sided perception of history.
God bless!

By: Kenneth Slater

Kenneth Slater — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:48:48 +0000

I am using this blog with my church in connection with your chapter “Dispensing God’s Grace; How can we do it?” I have learned that Disaster Assistance Mission, a Church of Christ organization in Lake Jackson, Texas is sending medical supplies (tourniquets, trauma kits, bandages, blood clotting medium) to missionaries inside of Ukraine and that World Vision has people working all over Eastern Europe to help refuges. Pray for all of these efforts.

By: Vicki Reiss

Vicki Reiss — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 13:45:14 +0000

I pray and ask God why He's letting this happen, but I lost 3 phone friends there. We had English language & cat-love in common. The two who are still alive are no longer doing well; I've watched while one, who was a calm & loving person before this happened, has spiraled into anger, down through rage and into a hardened hatred that shocks me. I never thought it was possible for someone who was calm and loving to reach this sunless place in her life - in 2 week's time. So, no, I'm sorry; but I don't understand why this situation needs to happen. I just don't understand it and I can't make myself do so. The woman's name is Xenta, on Twitter. You'll see for yourself if you go there, what she's like now, but you probably won't see the her that I met 2 years ago.

By: Sister Mary Catherine Smith

Sister Mary Catherine Smith — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:56:51 +0000

Thank you, Philip, your words say what my heart holds. God hears every prayer, sees every tear. I pray with the Psalmist How long o Lord, how long! The Psalms are my help. Thank you again, please continue to write. My prayers are with you. Pray for me too. God bless you!

By: Karen Chambers

Karen Chambers — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:29:12 +0000

Thank you for your words and informative article. I often look to your post to read your thoughts when tragedies arise. I also enjoyed reading all the comments – I especially appreciate Simona Rad’s words.
I would add to the list of persons to pray for to include our government leaders, Europe’s government leaders and China’s leaders. There are a lot of decisions being made and yet to be made. I pray that God would have his hand on these leaders and move their hearts to follow His guidance.
As individuals I pray we will have discernment for what is true and right and work towards bringing God’s will to Earth as it is in Heaven.

By: Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:48:07 +0000

In reply to Sr. Sandra Sears CSBC.

Fine contemporary application of a biblical image. Jesus made the comment– “How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing.” (Mat. 23:37b)–knowing that war and destruction were about to descend on Jerusalem.

By: Sr. Sandra Sears CSBC

Sr. Sandra Sears CSBC — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:43:03 +0000

Last week I had to prepare a sermon on the Gospel reading – Luke 13:31-35 – the fox (Herod) and the hen (Jesus). That, plus an experience I had a few years ago when I went into nearby forest a couple of days after a bushfire as a chaplain, to talk to farmers and orchardists. One farmer had lost 60 of his chickens which were locked up, leaving another 60 to run away from the fire. After the interview, as we were leaving, I noticed a little hen with half a dozen chickens behinds her. I did my sums. I asked the farmer about her. He said, “She was brooding at the time, and when the fire came through, when the others fled, she ran back to the nest. The fire raged about her and the next day the eggs hatched.” That story, plus what we are witnessing in the Ukraine, ended up in this poem, ‘The fox and the Hen.’
The fox and the hen
(Luke 13:31-35)

1. Said the fox to the hen, “I have your measure.
I can do what I like, I can take my pleasure.
I can whip you and taunt you, and hang you on a tree,
I can plunder and pillage, and destroy all I see.”

2. Said the hen to the fox, “I know your kind.
I know all your scheming, and I know your design;
for you seek to destroy me and those of my kind.
But the fire that you bring will not change my mind.”

3. Said the fox to the hen, “Your destruction is nigh,
And who will be with you when you suffer and die?”
Said the hen, “Though abandoned and left all alone,
I will love them and gather them, and call them my own.”

4 So the fox went the way of his anger and hate,
and the hen to her nest and her fiery fate.
But the fox, as he gloated and laughed in his den,
could never have reckoned on the love of the hen.

5. For she ran into the fire with a shout of joy
and a heart full of love that could never be destroyed.
And in three short days she would rise and bring
love and life to all who shelter beneath her wings.

By: Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:27:27 +0000

In reply to Duncan Fields. No, Duncan, I haven't heard of any assisting immigration here. Lutheran World Relief has a long history with refugees, so they may.

By: Duncan Fields

Duncan Fields — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:46:18 +0000

Thank You Phillip!

I’m reminded of the Edmond Burke quote: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. As difficult as it may be, I pray that the US, Canada and Western Europe will do whatever is necessary, and soon, to act as a force for good to overcome the evil of President Putin and insure that Ukraine remains a sovereign nation!

Are you aware of any US Christian organizations that are facilitating the immigration of Ukraine refugees to the U.S.?

Appreciate your thoughtfulness on this issue.

Duncan Fields