Thank you to all who were praying for our little friend Tru.  She passed from this life and into the loving and faithful arms of Jesus yesterday afternoon.  I rejoice that she has a new body with a perfect heart and will never experience pain again.  But my heart is so heavy and hurting for her sweet mother and father and brother and all those who loved her so dearly.  I pray for God’s peace to guard their hearts.

There are so many things in this life that I do not understand.  I do not understand why a three-year-old little girl dies because of a heart problem.  I don’t understand why my daughter’s life was spared when so many are not.  I do not understand why people have babies and literally throw them away when there are other’s who long to have a child and can’t.  I do not understand why a 26 yr old father of 2 is diagnosed with terminal cancer.  I do not understand why kids are sexually abused.  I do not understand why lovely and wise ladies get Alzheimer’s and forget who their children are, who their spouse is, and even themselves.  I do not understand “why” these things happen the way they do.  I do know that they will not stop happening until Christ comes back because there will always be sin in the world and therefore there will always be death (Romans 6:23).  I do believe with all my heart that when I get to heaven, and finally see things how Christ sees them, that it will all make sense.  And I also believe that it will no longer matter because we will be with Christ and He will be the ONLY thing that matters.  God knows our griefs.  He knows our hurts.  He hurts and grieves with us….for us (Romans 8:26).  He also knows the heart of man (Jeremiah 17:9) and that we had sin in our hearts from the moment we were conceived (Romans 3:23).  None of us are better than the other.  We are all lost in our sins.  We needed a Savior.  And God, in His wonderful grace and mercy provided that Savior who came to earth as a baby, died on the cross as our substitute and rose again to be our living Savior!  Not because we asked Him to.  Not because we loved Him so much (1 John 4:10) and not because we did so many good things to deserve it….but because He loved us (John 3:16).  What an amazing gift (Ephesians 2:8-9)!  So even though there will always be terrible, sorrowful, unspeakable things that happen in this world, those who know Christ as their Savior can have hope that this is not the end.  We will be with Christ someday where all things on this earth will pass away and the peace of God will truly reign in our hearts.  And until then, we also have the promise that He will never leave us (Deuteronomy 31:6) and will always be with us (Isaiah 43:2).  Amazing.