Where Is God?

(Daniel 2:28)"... but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries"

This week has been busy. I have lost many dear patients but then this is the job I endear. I cannot tell you how precious these families and lives are but more importantly, our Savior. He is so present during these sweet and precious times.

Yesterday, I was at the house of my one of my patients when her best friend, her lover became angry as he stood over her dying body and said to me, "So where is your God in this?"

He had already told me that he was agnostic. His spouse is a believer.

He is holding onto his bitterness. The bitterness that numbs his soul and keeps him protected from the sorrow he is faced with.

For if, just if, there is a God... he may be forced to face the fact that what he is dealing with at this moment is real... as he is about to walk through the valley of the shadow of death. (Psalm 23) Denial is a powerful emotion.

But what he doesn't realize is if--- he would open that hand of acceptance of a God, my God, his God--he will find hope, hope born of suffering --well known by our Savior.

This would allow him to be held as he takes the hand of our Savior. Otherwise, he may walk this journey alone after she is gone.

My last words to my friend were, "Ask God to reveal Himself to you."

And at that moment, her perfectly still sleeping dog came over to him and jumped up as if to be held. He said, "Now, that is weird."

So, I whispered to him, "Ask God.." as I left his home.

Blessings...