Eloise’s pituitary tumor and brain surgery My heart attack Granny’s ALS Mom’s liver disease Billie’s addiction Carol’s cancer Ben’s pneumonia and 11 days in ICU Sara’s Lupus

Eloise’s pituitary tumor and brain surgery

My heart attack

Granny’s ALS

Mom’s liver disease

Billie’s addiction

Carol’s cancer

Ben’s pneumonia and 11 days in ICU

Sara’s Lupus

My dad Eloise’s mom Sara

My dad

Eloise’s mom

Sara

Job circumstances (downsizing, mergers, etc.) Broken relationships Church situations

Job circumstances (downsizing, mergers, etc.)

Broken relationships

Church situations

Our experiences are a lot like theirs. God’s response today mirrors what we see for people in the Bible.

Our experiences are a lot like theirs.

God’s response today mirrors what we see for people in the Bible.

Sometimes God spares us the pain. Sometimes God allows us to suffer through it.

Sometimes God spares us the pain.

Sometimes God allows us to suffer through it.

Sometimes we are intensely aware of God’s presence. Sometimes it seems that God is absent.

Sometimes we are intensely aware of God’s presence.

Sometimes it seems that God is absent.

Sometimes God provides a miracle. Sometimes He doesn’t.

Sometimes God provides a miracle.

Sometimes He doesn’t.

Some good people seem to live charmed lives. Other good people seem to never get a break.

Some good people seem to live charmed lives.

Other good people seem to never get a break.

About the time we think we have God and life figured out, We find our human wisdom shattered by a new event, and We’re left to pick up the pieces and rebuild our understanding of God and our lives. Without these events, we’d tend to focus our lives on the physical, not the spiritual.

About the time we think we have God and life figured out,

We find our human wisdom shattered by a new event, and

We’re left to pick up the pieces and rebuild our understanding of God and our lives.

Without these events, we’d tend to focus our lives on the physical, not the spiritual.

It takes as long as it takes!

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