Where was God this morning?

This morning I woke up in a surprisingly good mood. I was rested, up early enough to enjoy my morning without rushing around (which is rare). I played with the dogs and even made myself a cup of coffee (even more rare than the first). As I made my coffee, I laughed to myself while I poured it into one of mine and Jeremy's many mustache coffee mugs, I thought to myself that I should text my best friend and say good morning. So, I sent Brooke a picture of me and the mustache mug, because she is the only other person I know of that finds them as funny as I do. 

Not even five minutes later she sent me a picture of her car, which she had wrecked on her way to work. 

Here I was in my happy little bubble, thanking God for great conversations the night before, waking up rested, having a relaxing morning, etc and at the exact same time Brooke was sliding off the road in her car, hitting a tree, being extremely scared, calling for help. Obviously, she was having the exact opposite morning that I was. Why her? Why did he let this happen to one of His children? It didn't happen because she isn't a christian, because she deserved it, or because she doesn't know how to drive. But sometimes it's so hard to see that when you're going through a struggle. It's much easier to blame God or ask him where he was when something bad happened. But the truth of the matter is that we have no idea what He did. We don't know if the wreck should have been worse and he made her little VW bug be extra strong. We don't know if she wrecked where she did because if she would have wrecked a block down the road it might have been with an even bigger tree or with a car that would have hurt her and her car worse. We don't know if He didn't keep her from wrecking because her car is bad and maybe next week it would have overheated and blown up (obviously these are all hypothetical) but nonetheless, we don't know. It's absurd to assume that we know more about what's best better for us than The Author of the Universe. The truth is, she is safe. God was there with her every step and He hated it as much as she did. 


*not finished but my laptop is about to die. I shall return to this post* :)