They sound something like this, "You may as well give up. You been living for God all this time, and look how He thanks you." Or, "God can't hear you. You're not even sure if He's really real. You're wasting your time praying to Him."

What about, "If God really loved you, He'd fix what you're going through. After all, He would want you to be happy, wouldn't He?"

I knew who it was filling my head with all that nonsense. But, I was agreeing with everything he said because that's really how I was feeling inside. So for 2 1/2 days, I was tearfully drowning in my sorrows. And you know what? God let me do it, too. He didn't give me ONE word of relief until I made the effort to change who I was having a conversation with.

So, after crying and pouting and feeling horribly sorry for myself, I wised up and started talking to God. And I asked Him all the questions any sane person would: "Lord, I've been trying to live my life for you, why is this happening to me? I've been teaching my son to walk in Your ways, and why? So You can do Him the same way You're doing me...forget HIM in HIS time of need?"

And a whole list of other things. Just venting, if nothing else. And at that point, I was like I might as well be honest, He already knows my heart, my TRUE feelings. I’m not sugar-coating anything. And, I didn't.

But here's the GOOD NEWS! God honored that! Goodness did He honor it! He just began to flood me with His word and precious promises!

If you find yourself in a difficult situation (and we all do), please know that God loves you.

He's much too loving to ever be unkind. He tells us so gently in Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." And to me, that's just AWESOME!

So let me encourage you that when you find yourself "going through", to talk to Him about it because He cares. In fact, He brings us to situations like the one I went through just to draw us closer to Him...and it works! Because when you taste and see that the Lord is GOOD, you want MORE of Him!

There WILL be times when we can't always see His "hand," but please know that even when you can't see His hand and how He's working things out, you can ALWAYS, ALWAYS trust His heart for you!

God's blessings FOREVER!

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