How to See God’s Purpose in Your Disappointment

I did all the right things. I went to church, prayed about life choices, and carved out a deep faith even in my early teens. I didn’t cheat or gossip. I worked to be a good friend. As I got older, I loved my husband and my kids and put them first, the way I was supposed to. I even took it two steps further and stayed home to raise them and homeschool them while I perfected hovering just the right amount. 

Yet my family isn’t perfect, and my life is often hard. There are days and weeks and months I feel the opposite of safe and whole and happy.  

It’s easy to blame God when life goes wrong. He can do anything. Stop anything. Change anything. But sometimes He doesn’t. People have free will. The world is full of death and disease and sin. Bad things happen to good people—even good Christian people.