There are things that happen on this side of eternity that most of us will never understand.

Moments that unravel our peace, undo our plans, and shatter what feels like the picture painted of our future.

Moments that leave us standing in the ashes,
holding the heartbreak of what we thought would be.

And when these heartbreaking things happen,
we cry out to God—Why?

Why do good people experience such deep pain? Loss. Heartbreak. Betrayal.

Why do the ones who love You most,
who serve in silence and pray in secret,
still feel like they’re drowning in storms You haven’t stilled?

If You are good, and everything You create is good, then where is that goodness and mercy
when the weight is heavy and the story breaks?

Because God— it’s hard to point people to You
when it looks like You didn’t show up.

It’s hard to say, “Trust Him,” when hope feels absent.

It’s hard to say, “God is for you,” when nothing around us feels like favor.

And it’s hard to stay faithful when our faith is being tested by the very things we begged You to prevent.

But still…we stay.

Not because it makes sense. Not because the ache disappears. But because in our spirit, we know—there is nowhere else to go but to the arms of the Loving Father who brings beauty from ashes.

This side of eternity is no easy road. But maybe… it’s where pain becomes preparation.

Where loss births clarity. Where hope sheds performance, and peace becomes the only thing we ask for.

Even on the hardest, darkest days— there is still beauty. Still goodness. Still the fingerprints of a Creator who is intentional about everything.

So He must be intentional about me. And about you.

He must be wise enough to take every heartbreak, every shattered place, and turn it into something holy.

So we’ll weep. And we’ll question. But we will still call Him good.

Not because life always feels good—but because in the silence, in the darkness,
He is still there.

He sits with us and He grieves with us. Even though He knows the story ends in victory.

So we hand Him our heartbreak. We open the aching places. And we trust… that while this side of eternity holds the questions, He holds the answers. And He still holds us.