Parakalein

With natural calamities all around us and when locally a fire destroys a home and leaves a grandmother in the hospital in critical condition with burns over most of her body it is hard to say "God is good".

Tragedies are not good no matter what they are.  God does not control these events nor can God prevent them.  However God is present to help us through the heartache and body ache.

This woman lays in an ICU hovering between this world and the next.  She raises the issue of keeping her alive which the doctors are committed to do and letting her die without heroic measures to keep her alive in her suffering.   Euthanasia proponents would offer a third alternative, assist her peaceful dying.  Euthanasia is from the greek word for mercy killing.  Agathanasia, is the from the greek word for good death.  Psalm 116:15 says "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints".  Death is good when it ends our suffering and transfers our bodies form a state of pain to a state of eternal pleasure where there is nor crying or pain.  Death is not good as it steals life, grandmothers, loved ones away from us.  The death canal leads to eternal life and that is good.  God did not keep this from happening and that is not good.  It happened and that is not good.  God is present in death as in life and that is good.  God is present for Sharon.  God is present for you.  God is present for all.  God is present to comfort all who mourn. God is also present to pour something good into life and help us to find good in everything.  God does not do things for good.  God helps us to find good in all things.

"And God saw everything he had made and said it is "very good"