Sunday, July 29, 2012

Love Comes Softly

In a scene from the Hallmark movie saga “Love Comes Softly” an angry-at-God Katherine Heigl questions a God that allows bad things to happen. Her new husband gently provides an analogy about his own daughter …

Missy could fall down and hurt herself even if I am walking right there beside her, but that doesn’t mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows that with a father’s unconditional love that I will pick her up and carry her. I will try to heal her and I’ll cry when she cries. I will rejoice when she is well … and in all the moments in my life, God’s been right there beside me. The truth of God’s love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it’s His promise that He will be there with us when they do.”