What do you do when you just can't fix something--like a world where disasters feel like they're coming faster than ever?

Listen to just five minutes of the news and you'll hear about wars, earthquakes, famines, diseases, and persecution. It's easy to ask, "Where is God?"

Narrow, difficult, hard to find.  If you came to a hiking trail labeled with those words, you'd probably think twice before heading up it, wouldn't you?

When you were growing up, did your parent stand you up against a wall with a pencil to mark where the top of your head reached?  It's exciting to see growth!

Can you remember when you were 13 years old?  Do you wish you could forget?  

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail.  There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."[1]  These were the words of Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant physicists to ever live.  Hawking was an atheist. Many of the world's most dazzling minds—Nobel Prize winners like Madame Marie Curie, Albert Camus and Milton Friedman, all refused to believe in God.

[1] Ducharme, Jamie. “Stephen Hawking Was an Atheist: His Words on Death and God.” Time, Time, 14 Mar. 2018, https://time.com/5199149/stephen-hawking-death-god-atheist/

They're called influencers—they're the people who have the power to motivate us to

act in one way or another.

The little reminders were here and there, left in places where Shawna would see them often.  On each sticky note the letters "BTP" were scribbled. What were these mysterious messages all about?

Waiting, in any circumstance, is hard. Given the opportunity to get yourself out of a bad situation, why wouldn't you?

God has promised to meet all the needs of those who come to Him for help. Sometimes, that help takes longer to arrive than we'd like.