Where is God when we're crying ....

It has been a long time since I blogged .... but I have some thoughts that I just have to get down on paper.

Where is God when we are crying ?

We have a wonderful young couple who are dear to our hearts who found out their unborn baby has died.

Where is God when we are crying?

Parents lose their babies.

Children lose their parents.

Sisters and brothers lose their siblings.

People feel despair and take their owns lives.

Marriages crumble.

Disease occurs.

Where is God when we are crying?

Well .... I have an inside answer to that.

Read on ....

I was sexually molested the summer I was 9. There was an old man who lived on a farm. My parents would leave me there for the afternoon so I could ride his ponies, They only problem was .... they didn't know what he was doing to me in the barn.

But ... ya know what happened?

God held me. He held me as we watched what was going on. He held me and told me I did not need to hate the man .... I did not need to plot revenge against him. He told me the man was a dirty old man and that He would deal with the man when he died. The man would be punished for his action. He would take care of it.

I was not at fault. I had done nothing wrong.

But God was there ... He held me .... He comforted me .... and He consoled me.

Bad things happen. Some are caused by the decisions and action of others. Some are the results of some action on our part. Most, like disease and dying, are the results of our fallible bodies. We are created so that our bodies mutate. Otherwise we would all be carbon copies of each other and there would be no special person to attract us. Everyone would be the same and that would not be good.

Do we pray for miracles? Absolutely! And God still grants them on small day to day scales. But ..... we ALL deserve big miracles! We are ALL worthy of them!! And if that is the case then how does God decide who to grant them to? He loves us ALL! To grant one prayer and not grant another would be wrong. No one would understand why one person was worthy and another one was not. So he holds our loved ones, and comforts them and longs to comfort us as well.

So ....

Where is God when we are crying?

Where is God when we are angry?

Where is God when we are inconsolable?

He is holding his arms out and He is waiting to hold us ... on his lap .... above the turmoil going on down below.

And ... He is crying ....