Discovering God in Grief

My daughter Dawn died this last January 8th. Her birthday was October 25th. She would have been 29. Last Thanksgiving was her last good day before she died. We had a great meal together. It has been such a hard year. She had CML leukemia. If you want to know more about her go to goshdawnit.com. It is a very helpful blog on what she went through before she died. She was a great young lady with a lot of love, for people, for God and for life. It was so comforting and helpful to know that thousands of people were and are praying. We still do not understand the great mysteery of why she died when she did but we find comfort in knowing that our awesome God is redeeming this even still today and is still at work in drawing people to Himself. As a pastor for almost thirty years I discovered long ago that there is a God and I am not Him. When I let God be God then I find my place in the bigger scheme of theings anda can discover peace. A recent aspect of that journey is the ongoing discovery of new insights on what it means to wait upon the Lord to have one's strength renewed. More on that another time. Check out my Myspace page for some pix on what will be a tribute to my daughter.