The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. — Job 1:21 Grief has a way of raising hard questions about God's goodness. Trusting God after loss — especially the loss of someone who shaped your view of him — doesn’t come easy....
The wildflower seed is a picture of what God does in seasons of suffering: He uses darkness, cold, and waiting to produce what light and comfort alone never could.
When church leaders wound you, when ministry dreams die, when everything you’ve built crumbles—these are the moments that test whether your faith can survive. When we go through devastating rejection we can learn to recognize God’s presence in our deepest pain. Even when we’re fed the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, our Teacher never hides himself.