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This is our new series on God’s goodness. Because God is good even if, even when, even still. His goodness is not found in our circumstances, in our pain and loss, or even our joy and triumphs. But, His goodness is found in who He is and what He did for us at the Cross. He is good all the time. God is constant. He never shifts or changes, even if, even when, even still.

Please join us today for our fourth post in this new series. You can read 1, 2, and 3 here.

“He has made everything beautiful in His time.”
Ecclesiastes 3:11a (ESV)

It can certainly be hard to see the beauty in life’s struggles and hurts. The pain caused by tragedies, fog our vision and scar our hearts, to see clearly God’s hands stretched out to embrace and comfort us. He cares that we hurt and He stands there waiting to heal our wounds. He waits to hear our cries for Him to show us how to take ashes and make them beautiful.

Even in this journey of grief through widowhood, He will make it beautiful. Jesus will always come between us and our sorrows, our pain, our fears. We cannot get away from God. His goal isn’t necessarily to make us happy. His goal is to make us His. Becoming the person God wants you to be takes time. And it doesn’t come easily or overnight. And often, it comes at a great cost or loss. It is a process of walking every day with Him; asking Him to pierce our soul. Even in the midst of trials and tribulations, we must allow Him to mold us, shape us, change us and move us.

~Bonnie