Welcome to the Femina Podcast.

This is Nancy Wilson.

Thanks for joining me today.

Contentment in trials and afflictions is my subject today.

And how to steward them when they're front and center in your life.

And affliction can be very time-consuming and take up all your thoughts

and drive out joy and peace and all the rest of the fruit of spirit

while filling us with dread and worry and discontent.

So I've gathered a few quotations and thoughts for you

if you are in a time of

affliction, or if you're trouble-free, but you have friends and loved ones who are in the

midst of trial, this will be a help to you to help encourage them. Jeremiah Burroughs always

nails it when speaking of contentment in trials. And this is from his rare jewel of Christian

contentment. Let not men and women pour too much upon their afflictions. You find many people

all whose thoughts are taken up about what their crosses and afflictions are. They are altogether

thinking and speaking of them. When they awaken the night, their thoughts are

on their afflictions. And when they converse with others, it may be even when they are praying to God,

they are thinking of their affliction. Rather, labor to have your thoughts on those things that may

comfort you. It will be a very great use and benefit to you if you lay it to

heart not to be pouring always on afflictions, but on mercies. There's the end of the quote.

Think about how true this is. It takes great effort to change the subject when you are in physical

or emotional pain.

...