While I'm Thinking About It

There are difficult times and difficult circumstances for each of us, whether pagan or "All In" disciple. It doesn't matter if we believe God exists and just ignore Him, or if we are marginal in our lip-service to God. Difficult times are ordained to be a part of human life as Job astutely observed: "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). There are theoretical discussions and explanations for this reality that make perfect sense and are Biblically sound. I have been involved in that type of discussion and believe that pain and difficulties are tools to sharpen us and draw us to God, but it is not always the right time to speak about that. I sat with a family who had just lost their child, a child I had learned to love as well. When I arrived at the hospital and we had settled for a few minutes, it became obvious that it was time for me, the preacher, to say something. The mother looked at me and said: "I do not want to hear that everything happens for a reason." I told her