A brief note on faith.

I have heard people in hard situations, in grief-filled moments, in procedure-pending moments say, “I don’t understand.”

And I have heard well-meaning people say to them, “Don’t question God. You need to have faith.”

I usually turn to the one in the pain.

“I don’t understand either,” I say. “I’m not sure why you need to be sitting here in this pain, waiting on this procedure, knowing that it may not work. And God’s not mad when you say you don’t understand. Not at all. That doesn’t i...