God works all things together for our good and His glory
What about the events that happen that we cannot explain? Perhaps this issue is at the heart of our faith as these kind of things seem to happen with regularity. Someone we know dies, and either they are very young , and also generally good people in the spiritual realm. We cannot fathom why this happens. We usually go through the stages of grief in our loss. Our first reaction is shock. I was returning from a visit to a local restaurant in another town near us when I heard the news. My first reaction was disbelief. How could this happen? At some point in our feelings and thinking the other stages also appear... We feel anger , disappointment, bargaining and finally acceptance. Yet most of us, being quite human, go through these stages again and again. I thought of a book I have that began to help--- All Things for Good by Thomas Watson. Do all things happen for our good ? That is the real q...