God is good....always.

So it's a rainy day holiday today. I'm in my kitchen baking cookies for my sweet "niece" Kiley's birthday listening to worship music by Keri Jobe radio on Pandora. All 3 of the kids are napping, the rain is softly falling and I am thinking about how blessed I am and how good God is. I always say the phrase...."God is good....ALWAYS" whenever anything happens. Good or bad. I always hated when people would give me a sunshiny piece of advice after I lost Cole. And I would never preach what's not a 100% truth that I believe. But tried and true....God is good....ALWAYS. And then suddenly my world stops.

I get a phone call from my husband. He says he is at the hospital with Glen (his friend/co-worker). I stop what I am doing and the questions roll off my tongue....what? why? what happened? He says that Glen's son, Ryan, was stabbed while playing at the neighbors house. I respond with the typical....WHAT? WHY? HOW? Is he ok? How old is he? He says he was playing at a neighbors house. He is nine years old and that's all he knows. So after 30 minutes of waiting I get another call from my sweet sobbing husband. He says "He didn't make it." then silence that follows by a weary "I just don't understand, honey".

Well to tell the absolute truth, I don't either.

But what I do know is this. No matter the circumstance. Even in the midst of a tragedy like this. An unbearably broken hearted mommy and daddy that at the very minute I am typing this are at the hospital laying over their son. No matter what, God is still on the throne. We serve a mighty God that loves each of us with a love that we could never fathom. There are times that we want to throw ourselves on the floor and kick and scream and demand answers from God. I have been there. Sometimes we have to hold on to that truth by the tips of our fingers.

I don't understand whatsoever but I will continue to say, God is good....ALWAYS. I will praise the God who gives and takes away and pray that the same God who rises the sun every morning will wrap His arms around Glen and his family.

Please keep Glen and his family in your prayers.

I will praise you in this storm.

Love you guys!!

Lisa