He's Always Good: Reflections After Love and Loss

Photo credit to Arifur Rahman

God is always good.

Always.

Not sometimes.

Not yesterday.

Not tomorrow.

Always.

This year I've experienced some horrible, premature loss. Things and people died that by the world's definition "shouldn't have yet". I've had some nasty shocks that have left me shaking uncontrollably, grieving beyond tears, and left with an empty, hollow ache.

Through it all, God was so incredible. So real, so big, so there for me. This has one of the hardest years of my life, but I can also say without a doubt that it's been the most wonderful. It's hard, sometimes, to comprehend death, because how could someone so real and alive suddenly be gone? How is it that the person I talked to a few weeks ago or the pet I sat with yesterday morning be dead?

God is the God of life. He's not the God of death. In an amazing way, I know that he's taken what I've lost and given them beautiful life beyond what they ever experienced here. I'm the one living a half-life. They're the ones who are now living the life that God always intended for them to live.

So many random, weird, confusing things happen to me. Still, God is there for us always, no matter what happened to us, what's happening to us, or what will happen to us. How incredible is that?

I'm a wayward wanderer. I move on from one thing to the next, forgetting the past and dreaming about the future. But I know that no matter what happens to me in this life, God will always be there for me.

He'll always be there for you, too.