Watch the video before you read below because my paragraph will make more sense.
They showed this video at church last weekend and it ripped me up. I couldn’t imagine all this happening, and it would force me to be really real in my feelings and expression to God. I couldn’t imagine losing my son, I couldn’t imagine being apart of being ripped off by Enron and not wanting to hurt someone, and then to experience the heart surgeries to top it off! I am not THAT forgiving of a person where even this many year’s later could just casually mention it in an interview without some feeling showing on my face. I’m not. It’s a human expression and I guess over time the wounds heal and forgiveness happens, but these folks have been through it.
That is what really makes a story and begs the question of why bad things happen to good people and why a loving God would allow this. It’s the eternal question, but the things I know, the things I remember, what sustains my belief is that Satan has power over this world right now. As odd as this is to say this, God allows us to go through extreme tragedy sometimes to show us extreme joy… we wouldn’t know one without the other. Bad things have always happened and assuming God is going to erase tragedy seems like an invented idea of how things should be. Anyway, the video speaks volumes on how God can restore people because they seem like they’ve dealt with it all well and the past is the past. It meant so much to me when I first saw it and I wanted to pass it on.