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Wading Through Difficult Seasons by Jan L. Burt

  When we find ourselves in a difficult season of life, whether it is a heavy moment that feels as if our world has come crashing down around us or a circumstance we have been enduring for an extended period, we need the tenacity and wherewithal to hang on and keep hanging on. But there is only one source I’ve found that provides me with what I truly need during life’s darkest, longest days. Deuteronomy 32:12 (KJV) says this: “ So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him .” Time and again, during every single trying season in my life, this verse was true for me. The single source of my hope and my help was the Lord alone. The only guide I had, and the only guide I needed, was our good and loving God. Over the course of twenty-five years as a homeschooler, I’ve found myself up against a myriad of difficult circumstances. For example, my husband was deployed to the Middle East immediately after a very long two years of being away from home, which had been tr...