AnYthiNG, Why and an Answer

Travis...I would give anything. 

ANYTHING for all this to not

have happened to you. 

I would give anything to have YOU back.

  ANYTHING.

I have run into a couple of Trav's friends this

week.  Not close friends...but people that

knew him and of course they asked about him.

Both times the tears just rolled down

my face as I talked about him

and as I walked away from the friends.

Why Travis? 

Sometimes I just can't help it.

I have to ask God, "Why?"

I know that it's okay to ask why...

I know God understands.

I think He has been wanting me to find

an answer and I've just not

been able to wrap my mind around

an answer good enough. 

...Until the other day when my

 blog friend shared this from Beth Moore's

Bible study on Daniel:

"Our God is able to deliver us, Beloved.

Every time!

And how often He does!

If ever He does not and the flames of death

or tragedy consume us,

it is to light a fire somewhere and in

some heart that can never be

extinguished. 

Trust Him to the death.

Trust Him through the death.

In the blink of an eye,

we'll understand."

I love these words on so many levels ~

God truly does deliver.

Over and over again.

I pray it is MY heart or better

yet that my heart is one of

many who can never be

extinguished because of this

tragedy with Travis.  I love the

"TRUST HIM" no matter what

and the "in the blink of an eye".......

indeed, INDEED,

we are merely living in the blink of an eye

and then we'll understand.

We will understand WHY! 

That answer doesn't take away my

desire to give anything to have Travis back...

whole and healthy, the way he used to be. 

BUT it certainly helps.

A beautiful, hopeful answer to "why"!