Grace Grows Best in Winter

“Why God allows severe trials to enter the lives of His children, even to hedge them about, is one of the oldest questions in the universe; the problem of pain has engaged the finest and most devoted minds from time immemorial and has never yet been satisfactorily resolved.  We believe that one day our God will make plain to His children the inscrutability of His ways; that in that golden morning when we shall know as we are known, every question will be forever stilled, and we shall be eternally satisfied with His explanation.  Until then, we accept from His hand all that comes into our lives and seek to glorify Him in and through it.  The entire human race is subject to suffering – ‘the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world’; but only the Christian has hope of final answers to life’s mysteries.  How much easier to take our sorrows from the Father’s hand, knowing His presence with us now and having His promise of light ahead, than to suffer alone and in the dark! (1 Peter 5:9)".

From one of mom's favorite books...she's been gone 17 years today...I cannot believe it.  I often think about that moment when all her questions were forever stilled and when she was eternally satisfied with His explanation. One day I'll get that moment too!