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Floods and Reconciling Your Faith · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, how
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  Speaker 1: do you reconcile your Christian faith with the loss of
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  Speaker 1: life in Texas from those floods. Well, let's ask our
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  Speaker 1: American mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Ma, she said.
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  Speaker 1: In joining us now our American mama Terry Netderville. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, this has kind of been a roller coaster
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  Speaker 1: of a bit of a weekend because you had the
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  Speaker 1: personal joy of having your family around you for the
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  Speaker 1: Fourth of July and it's a big celebration for y'all,
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  Speaker 1: and you guys had a great time, and then the
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  Speaker 1: news comes of what's been going on in Texas and
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  Speaker 1: there's just heartbreaking that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and we didn't have we didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the news. One, we had music going, you're enjoying family. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there was tons of people there, and so we were
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  Speaker 2: kind of late to the game. We didn't know this
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  Speaker 2: was happening until one of our guests said to me,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot believe what's happening in Kerrville, Texas. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: what's happened in Kerrville? What's going on? And then they
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  Speaker 2: told me and I was like, wait, what, Like it
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  Speaker 2: didn't I couldn't comprehend how something like that could happen
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  Speaker 2: and that way. And at that time, we didn't know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we didn't know how many lives were being affected.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't know about all the little girls in the
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  Speaker 2: camp missed it camp. And then I got on late
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  Speaker 2: that night or really early next morning. I was on Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: and I saw some of our friends who had girls
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  Speaker 2: that went to that camp, and they were heartbroken. And
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  Speaker 2: in times like this, I don't understand, and I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: to God for answers, like, help me understand, help me
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  Speaker 2: get through this, because these little girls did nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 2: So God, help me understand. And you start looking for
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  Speaker 2: something for verses, Well, I'll tell you what happened. I
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  Speaker 2: was scrolling Facebook and Louis our very own Lewis Avaloni.
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  Speaker 2: He had posted his feelings and thoughts and feelings about this,
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  Speaker 2: and when I read it, it struck me to my
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  Speaker 2: core and I knew immediately that this was God using
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  Speaker 2: him because it it oh it just in fact, it
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  Speaker 2: ad meant so much I shared it. I just looked
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  Speaker 2: and it's about three thousand people have shared this because
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  Speaker 2: it really hits. Yeah, Lewis, you have to go to Facebook.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, that's just on one account. Yeah, on it been
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  Speaker 1: shared on some other accounts, and then so that three
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  Speaker 1: thous as right, So it's actually larger than that that's
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  Speaker 1: been shore.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I want to read this because I know
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  Speaker 2: people aren't on social media some people, but you should.
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  Speaker 1: If you're on social media, go check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Check it. He wrote. There are moments in life so sorrowful,
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  Speaker 2: so beyond our comprehension that words feel powerless. The tragic
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  Speaker 2: loss of life from the recent rising of the Guadalupe
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  Speaker 2: River is one such moment, especially as parents like you
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  Speaker 2: and me desperately try not to imagine the indescribable loss
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  Speaker 2: the parents of those children are experiencing. That's because his parents.
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  Speaker 2: We spend our lives trying to do everything right. We
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  Speaker 2: buckle the seat built, we hold their hand near traffic.
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  Speaker 2: We stay up late. We're brying over fevers, friends and futures.
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  Speaker 2: We build our schedules, our finances, our very identities around
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  Speaker 2: the safety and success of our children. We try to
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  Speaker 2: protect them from all harm, believing perhaps subconsciously, that if
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  Speaker 2: we just make the right decisions, they'll be safe. We
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  Speaker 2: cling to that sense of control as we go from
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  Speaker 2: checking on our children at night in their beds to
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  Speaker 2: checking Life three sixty repeatedly to see where they are
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  Speaker 2: on a map. But in moments like this, we're reminded
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  Speaker 2: brutally that we are not in control. And that's hard
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  Speaker 2: to accept, almost too hard, because when tragedy strikes, we
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  Speaker 2: naturally ask where was God? But scripture tells us something essential,
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  Speaker 2: something that gives perspective even when we're surrounded by heartbreak.
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  Speaker 2: Psalm one seventy three reminds us children are a heritage
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  Speaker 2: from the Lord, offspring, a reward from him. These children
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  Speaker 2: are not merely ours, They are God's. We were entrusted
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  Speaker 2: with them, handpicked for the role of parenthood by the
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  Speaker 2: creator of the universe. That wasn't by chance, that was
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  Speaker 2: by design. Jeremiah one to five says, before I formed
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  Speaker 2: you in the womb, I knew you and saw one
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  Speaker 2: thirty nine speaks beautifully of how God knit us together
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  Speaker 2: in our mother's womb. That child you tucked into bed
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  Speaker 2: last night, the one you held through their first steps
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  Speaker 2: in first tears, was never a random combination of biology.
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  Speaker 2: They were appointed to you as your sacred assignment. You
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  Speaker 2: were hired by God himself to be their protector. Nurturer
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  Speaker 2: and God. That's why we try so hard to protect them,
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  Speaker 2: because the responsibility runs deeper than instinct, It runs into eternity.
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  Speaker 2: But even in that, even with all of our efforts,
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  Speaker 2: we must remember the rest of the truth, God is
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  Speaker 2: still in control. As unimaginable as it may seem, when
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  Speaker 2: we face lost like this, his hand has not left us.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't erase the pain, but it reframes it to
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  Speaker 2: every one of us, asking why know this? We are
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  Speaker 2: entrusted with our children for a season, but they belonged
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  Speaker 2: to Him for eternity. Nothing in this life is truly
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  Speaker 2: out to keep, not our possessions, not even the people
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  Speaker 2: we hold dearest. Everything we have passes through our hands
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  Speaker 2: like water through our fingers. But God's love that's eternal.
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  Speaker 2: It does not fade, It does not fail, and it
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  Speaker 2: never lets go. God understands the ache of losing a child.
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  Speaker 2: He gave his only son not because it made sense,
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  Speaker 2: but because it was part of a greater redemption. That
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  Speaker 2: same God holds the souls of those children lost in
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  Speaker 2: this tragedy, and he holds us too. None of us
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  Speaker 2: is promised tomorrow. None of us can out smart or
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  Speaker 2: outplant a world that's full of unpredictable storms. But we
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  Speaker 2: can make today count. We can treat each day as
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  Speaker 2: a gift because it is. We may not be in control,
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  Speaker 2: but we serve a God who is, even when in
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  Speaker 2: the face of such tragedy it seems ridiculous to think.
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  Speaker 1: So you can check that out on American Ground Radio
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  Speaker 1: on our Facebook page, Lewis Beautiful Words. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: posting those turn out of a thank you so much.