Sometimes things don’t make sense.
Last week I lost a sweet friend, Amanda, after her 5 year battle with metastatic breast cancer. She was only 36. Please wrap her husband and three children, 7, 5 and almost 2 with your love and prayers.
As much as I try to wrap my head around this loss, its a hard one to make sense of. When someone has lived a long life, somehow we can make sense of their passing more easily. Yet to see someone taken so soon is harder to understand. My heart is with her husband and children. As sad as I am for her family, I do know she is well now, which I am grateful for.
I share this with you today in case you too have had something happen in your life that you just can’t make sense of. I invite you to join me to...
pause. breathe. pray.
May we be transparent with God about the questions we have and expose the depths of our heart to Him. This wrestling does not negate our faith but I wholeheartedly believe will strengthen it. You see, it isn’t when all is well that our faith grows stronger. It’s in the depths of times like these where our faith is being refined. We have the choice to get mad at, or talk with, God? To question God’s character, or trust who He says He is? To walk away from God, or walk towards him.
I am choosing to talk with, trust and walk towards God.
I know my saying that doesn’t make sense to everyone. For me, and where my journey in life has taken me, including my own walk cancer, having a relationship with God, is the only thing that has truly given me peace.
As much as we want to have answers to our questions, may we trust that someday we will see what God sees today. And may we have faith that His plan is better than our own.
Rest In Peace, sweet friend. We will be wrapping your family in love and prayers today, and always💕🙏💕
With love and hope,
Shawn
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” -Hebrews 11:1
