I don’t understand why Sammy has not yet been fully healed (God knows, we have prayed). I definitely don’t understand why he does some miracles and not others—it often seems so arbitrary. But I am learning to understand that I may never fully understand. I am learning to be a bit more okay with not being okay. Life sometimes hurts, but I’ve discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn’t actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess and all real hope from the future. And so I’m sort of stuck with God, even when I don’t understand him. Even when I don’t
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this is good material for sermon on suffering
