Postcards for People Who Hurt

By Claire Cloninger

Healing messages from God's Word are quoted and coupled with a personalized letter, paraphrased from Scripture, from God to you. These love-letters are written especially for the bruised and brokenhearted.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Jul 19, 1995
• ISBN: 9781418560294

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CLAIRE CLONINGER

POSTCARDS

For People Who Hurt

POSTCARDS FOR PEOPLE WHO HURT

Copyright © 1995 by Claire Cloninger. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations used in this book are from The Holy Bible, New Century Version, copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Word Publishing, Dallas, Texas 75234.

Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, P. O. Box 49068, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80949.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Cloninger, Claire.

Postcards for people who hurt/ Claire Cloninger.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-8499-1197-4

1. Consolation. 2. Suffering—Religious aspects—Christianity—Meditations.

3. Grief—Religious aspects—Christianity—Meditations. 4. Imaginary letters. I. Title.

BV4905.2.C556 1995

242’.4—dc20

95-2867

CIP

Printed in the United States of America.

5 6 7 8 0 1 2 3 4 9 DKN 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

CLAIRE CLONINGER

POSTCARDS

For People Who Hurt

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One of my life’s best blessings is a very gifted

and loving group of siblings.

This book is dedicated with love and gratitude to:

My sisters, Ann and Alix

and my brothers, Johnny and Charlie

Contents

Introduction

My Spirit Will Unlock My Word

There Is a Place for Your Pain

I Will Come to You

Nourish My Love in You

Bring Me Your Emptiness

Navigate by the Morning Star

Face into Your Grief

Let My Spirit Take Over

Let Us Travel Together

Your Silence Will Be a Prayer

I Stand Between You and the Wind

Send Out the Dove

My Door Is Always Open

Pour Out Your Pain

We Are Truly One

You Too Will Overcome

I Love You Forever

Jesus Prays for You

Trust the Shepherd’s Care

You Are Precious in My Sight

You Will Find Me Faithful

Release the Pain of Injustice

I Have Sent You a Message

Grieve, but with Hope

Cry Out to Me

Receive the Peace of Christ

I Will Never Reject You

Fall Back on Me

Trust My Spirit’s Power

I Am the Song in Your Silence

It Is His Peace That You Require

Let Me Be Your Guide

You Are a Part of Christ’s Body

He Will Carry Your Sorrows

I Am Still Here

Put the Past in My Hands

You Need Not Stand Alone

Hold My Promise in Your Heart

Listen to My Holy Spirit

In Me There Is Healing

I Speak in a Quiet, Gentle Voice

I Am Your Rock and Redeemer

I Have Sought You Out and Found You

Dare to Hope

I Am Your Shield

In Your Grief, I Grieve

Mourn with the Promise of Tomorrow

Healed to Be a Healer

Come, Enter My Rest

Hold Tight to This Promise

My Mercy Will Be Your Lifeboat

Come into the Sunlight

I See Beyond Your Heartache

Will You Choose Life?

I Am at Work in Your Trouble

Look to the Light

Be Strong in Me

I Am the Lord of All Seasons

See Your Healing Spring Forth

I Will Be for You a Quiet Consolation

Introduction

My first book of postcards, Postcards from Heaven, was a joy to write. In fact, I wrote most of it during my early-morning quiet times, never dreaming it would become a book!

Within a short time after it was published, I began hearing from people whose lives were being touched by those short, personal messages from God. There was Ruby from Washington, D.C., whose son had been shot and killed in an unsolved murder. While reading the postcards, Ruby said, it was as if she could hear God talking to her personally. He didn’t explain why it happened, she said. He just let me know how much he loves me, and he told me to trust him.

There was Terri from San Antonio, who sent the book to her brother who is ill with a life-threatening disease. It is the only book I’ve of God’s love for him in a noncondemning way, Terri explained. I knew God loved him and longed for him to know, but he could never hear it until now.

There was Luann, a thirty-seven-year-old wife and mother of three from Wisconsin, who wrote to say that Postcards from Heaven had been by her bedside through four hospitalizations for incurable cancer. She added that she had even ordered 350 copies of the book to be given out to friends and loved ones at her funeral, which she called her Celebration of Victory2 (Later I heard from Luann’s husband, Mark, who described the gracious way she had died and the beautiful funeral where the Postcards books were given out.)

Testimony

Reviews for Postcards for People Who Hurt

[cdiemert-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Healing messages from God's Word are quoted and coupled with a personalized letter, paraphrased from Scripture, from God to you. These love-letters are written especially for the bruised and brokenhearted.

[Itz Chel Ita · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

excellent book! It helped me a lot in restoring my communication with God and restoring my life