If you are in the middle of a painful circumstance, Nancy DeMas Walgamuth offers hope.

Your pain, whether it's pain that's in the distant past or pain in the immediate present,

your pain, my pain, our pain, leads us, if we're children of God, to a grand and glorious future.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For April 19th, 2021. I'm Dana Gresh.

Have you ever felt out of place in this world? If you don't feel like you're at home here,

I think that's actually a good thing. Because when you're a child of God, this world is not your home. Nancy DeMas Walgamuth is beginning a series on Psalm 137 this week called Singing the

Lord's song in a foreign land. Today, she's talking about how the pain me experience can actually be a

reminder of where our hope is found.

Let's listen.

I had a woman who come up to me at church not too many weeks ago after the service, and I was

asking her how her family was doing, and she shared with me some things that her grown

children, young adult children are facing out in the world.

One of them works for a mega company.

If I were to name it, you would all know what the company is. And he's facing some issues there

where it's hard to practice his faith in that context. And she said to me, I don't think I've

ever felt like such a foreigner in the land as I do today.

Have you ever felt that way? If you're a child of God, you have a sense of not belonging

in this world, right? A sense that this world is not your home. And this is the sense that is

expressed by the people of God in the Psalm we're going to be looking at over the next several days,

Psalm 137. So if you have your Bible, if you're in your car driving, listening to this, then you

might not want to turn there in your Bible.

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