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When The Heart Cries, “Why, O God?”

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My wife and I have a dear young friend, Christine, who is battling cancer- for herself and her daughter. After surgeries and PET Scans, the news is still frightening. Christine is a faithful but weary believer who knows how to care for others and finds it hard to think that maybe, just maybe, God isn’t caring for her. She asks the question that never goes away.

Hear the cry of her heart in in own words;

“I’m sitting in the hospital injected with radioactive dye for next 90 minutes and then they’ll start my PET scan.

I’m trying to figure out why my prayers haven’t been answered , and I keep getting struck down with bad news, and I’m struggling to not be mad at God for allowing me to have to endure all of this.  I’m trying to go back to accepting that he allowed me to wake up today, and to find these issues so I can get treated, but that doesn’t seem like enough and I’m angry with him, so I want to know how to feel that love from him again instead of the pain and suffering that keeps occurring.

Just why, when you try and do everything right and everything your supposed to that he continues to allow more suffering.

Christine ”

So we sit in silence like Job’s friends, leaving space for the grief, despair, questions, and search for God. 

And I’m afraid we are tempted like Job’s friends to eventually give her advice, Bible readings, platitudes, and some good books to read.

What Christine needs is people who understand the search, the silence and a glimmer of hope in the God who loves her.

What she needs is our solidarity with her and our prayers. 

Please pray for Christine and her family. Let’s knock on heaven’s door.

SADNESS FOR HAITI ….AND AMERICA

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I have been involved with Haiti for over 35 years and have become good friends with many people there, most of them brothers and sisters in Christ. Others and myself have witnessed love, faith, great works and ministry in the country and through the churches there. And now once more we have seen devastation, not from an earthquake but at our border.

Today a very good friend wrote me and I will let his words speak for themselves. There is nothing I can add that would do justice to the words that come from the heart, and the pain of this man I love like a brother. He is broken and his people are broken.

“My brother,

I gat tear when I saw what  happen to the Haitian people, I was really disappointed 

That situation remind me slavery period

Haitian are very angry, I know two Haitians who destroy their passport with American visas.

we all know ,Haitians helped America to fight  in order  to get his freedom , so we are part of America.

it’s inhuman when you hear testimony from people they send back to Haiti. 

We know that, American people are not happy with what’s happening at the border.

But , why Haitians ? 

Haitians love Haiti, they run away from Haiti because of kidnaping , killing, insecurity , violence and misery , we are not safe. ( nobody)

Haiti is one hour from America,  why America does not come to help with the gangs , insecurity and so one .

Today , I hear   Daniel Foot the  special ambassador for Haiti is resigned  because of what’ happening at the border and Haiti,

Past George, when you hear and see what is Happening in Haiti right  now is two different things. Haiti looks like hell, no body wants to stay.

Last week only at least 4 ships leave La Gonave Island.

George, 50 American  soldiers are good enough to help us with the gangs , we are at 1hre 30 minutes  from America.

Let ‘ us pray for Haiti.

God bless.”

The question for us is ‘What can and will we do?’ That is the question asked by our Lord, I believe.

I will write more but for today, let us pray for Haiti and ask wisdom for the leaders of our nation and world.

george