Amy Beth put Anita Renfroe on her blog, which made me laugh until I cried. 

My friend Jessica sent me this article on moms building invisible cathedrals.  That made me cry (I can't say that my children or husband make me feel invisible, though).

I just went to Michael Card's concert last night, and it made me both laugh and cry.  I bought  the hidden face of God: Finding the MIssing Door to the Father Through Lament.  I want to rush through it to grasp everything, but I have to take it slowly to absorb so many precious and profound thoughts.  

Card writes of the two sureties in life:  "Suffering and God.  Superficially, they seem mutually exclusive, like darkness and light, matter and antimatter.  What does one have to do with the other?..."

"The place where these two inescapable realities meet is in lament.  Here the suffering of man for God embraces the suffering of God for man..."

"What takes place in that meeting is as miraculous as it is unexpected.  The two do not simply destroy one another, as matter and antimatter would.  Nor does one simply overcome the other and win the battle.  No, the One who is Light and Life enters into the suffering and confusion of the other, into his or her darkness and death.  God defeats suffering by surrendering Himself to it.  He triumphs through exhausting Himself against it, by drinking the cup dry.  The miracle that takes place is salvation!  The God from whom we cannot escape uses inescapable suffering to save the world that has been in headlong flight from Him ever since the Fall."