From: George Mooth <>
Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian
Subject: Our Daily Bread "A Place For Sorrows"
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 11:34:19 -0500

May 25 Monday

A PLACE FOR SORROWS

Read: Isaiah 53

He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.
-Isaiah 53:4

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in 1982. In the first 15
years, 54,000 items were left at the Wall. It still takes almost an
hour every night, and much longer on Memorial Day, to collect the
mementos – a teddy bear, a photo of a soldier’s grandchild, a letter
from a daughter who never knew her dad.

Every item is labeled and taken to a warehouse. No one knows quite
how to deal with it all. “No one ever expected this to happen,” a park
ranger says.” It’s so personal. It caught everyone by surprise.”

Loss comes to us all, and we often carry our grief for many years.
We struggle with our emotions. Is there a place where we can leave our
sorrows and find healing for the wounds of life?

Isaiah 53 speaks of the Messiah as the One who “has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows….By His stripes we are healed” (vv.4-5). When
we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior from sin, we also come to know Him
as the One who can lift the weight of sadness from our shoulders.

We can bring our grief to the Man of sorrows. There is help and
healing and closure at the cross for the deepest pain of our hearts.
-David C. McCasland

When trials come, and storms arise,
When tempests darken earth and skies
And everything my spirit tries,
I’ll hide myself in Jesus. -Anon.

LEAVE YOUR SORROWS
WITH THE “MAN OF SORROWS.”

OUR DAILY BREAD, Copyright 1998 by Radio Bible Class,
Grand Rapids,Michigan. Used by permission.