Show Them Your God
I could take you right back to the exact spot where the conversation took place - one that would end up changing the course of my life forever. I believe it was a graduation reception that brought us all together, and I was speaking with a childhood friend, catching up a bit on life for both of us. Months before, his family's entire life had gone up in flames - a house fire taking every last thing they owned in a matter of minutes. They had found themselves standing outside in the cold of winter, watching the cinder-show and seeing everything they had built as a family for decades go up in smoke. Oddly enough, my own life had felt like its own fire as I'd been walking through the worst couple years of my life leading up to that point. The two of us spoke that day about how we were navigating everything: the questions, the uncertainty, the struggle to trust God. The friend's external world and my internal world were both ablaze and nothing looked the same as we both approac...
