Someone told me the other day, "boy, you're prolific!"

I said "naw, I just like to write a lot."

Not sure how old they thought I was, but I definitely wasn't from the Prolific era!

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Okay, enough of that...

God is so much bigger than anything we can imagine, yet facing a momentary challenge in our lives can cause so much concern. I'm not allowed to go into details (actually, I guess technically I'm allowed to but...), so let me just say our lives here, in little Independence Missouri, have been far more dramatic than I can remember. Even if I think really hard back to my dating life in high school, I can't remember such passionate battle raging in my little head (my hair makes my head look big, but it’s really pretty normal-sized).

Back to the topic at hand; God is beyond any challenge humanity could comprehend. Likewise, He allows His children to find their own way through the world, sometimes, when we think it’s in our best interest to leave Him out of the picture. Not that He isn’t right there next to us, but He’s also given us the ability to glean from His Word how we should live and how we should pursue Him. It seems to be our nature to find our own way around life, and He seems more than happy to allow us to do that until we are wise/broken enough to recognize the futility of depending on ourselves.

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(Alright, let the author step back for a moment and clarify something; he doesn’t know ANYthing about God; not when compared to how far the east is from the west, the north from the south. He spends his days chasing high school students around a building and acting like he's the mature one, and his evenings chasing elementary-age kiddos around the house, while still pretending to be the mature one. At night, he often ends up doing a load of laundry, watching some TV, and climbing into bed regretting he didn’t spend more time in the Bible. He is by no means attempting to tell someone else how they should live; he's never seen through anyone else’s eyes, nor felt their heart.

He is simply a lowly being. One who knows he’s forgiven without any justification on his part; one who lives every day wondering if he’s made the right decisions for that day. These written words are the reflections of a heart in turmoil and attempting to figure out - on a very limited understanding - why and how things are the way they are.  And right now, he’s pretty frustrated about how things are…)

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Sorry, took a brief bathroom break (heh, that reminds me of a funny little joke about making "deposits" at Bank of Ameri-Flush...). Wait, where was I?

"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see."

Hebrews 11:1 

 Ever spend a long road trip, traveling through hills and valleys and long rows of trees? There's the occasional gas station, or "pit stop" as we used to call them, but not much else. And, while when you're a little older the scenery is enjoyed, at the ripe young age of whatever, trees and hills just don't cut it. Did you ever have one question (among many, perhaps) that seemed to egg it's way out of you on numerous occasions? I did.

"Are we there, yet?"

Anyone? I did. I know my brothers did. And, now, I hear my kids doing it, too. I think it's a natural progression for humans to want to know the plan. Heck, even from the age of five, my son was asking this question whenever we were on the road for more than an hour!

Hebrews 11:1 (and beyond) tells us to have faith in what we do not understand and cannot see. I had an atheist friend try to use this verse against me once, and he seemed frustrated when I told him I agreed with that quote! Of course, the more he spoke of his non-theist believing, the more I realized he'd agree with it, too, if he were honest. Again, I digress.

My point is the Scriptures are clear we are to trust God to see when the world is pitch-black. In all of the storms, He is the calm waiting for us to call on Him. His is the whisper we hear if we are willing to stand through the tempest and earthquakes and lava. It's still and quiet... and it SUCKS to wait... but if we trust His Word, we can trust the pain is well worth suffering.