{"id":894,"date":"2014-05-22T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=894"},"modified":"2015-08-11T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T23:01:16","slug":"god-neither-needs-nor-wastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2014\/05\/god-neither-needs-nor-wastes\/","title":{"rendered":"God Neither Needs Nor Wastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>In your frustration, loneliness, isolation, pain, turmoil, desolation, and death . . . there is nothing God can\u2019t redeem.<\/p>\n<p>God who made everything out of nothing is not going to be thwarted.<\/p>\n<p>God who turned the ultimate evil into the ultimate good is not going to let your suffering go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be afraid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flowers_in_devastation.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/59\/Flowers_in_devastation.JPG\/747px-Flowers_in_devastation.JPG\" alt=\"File:Flowers in devastation.JPG\" width=\"448\" height=\"359\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Koustav2007 (Own work) [Public domain], <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AFlowers_in_devastation.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your frustration, loneliness, isolation, pain, turmoil, desolation, and death . . . there is nothing God can\u2019t redeem. 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