How Long?

Excerpt from One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp page 98


I am David lamenting, "O Lord, why...?" (Psalm 10:1). Why this broken world punched through with losses? "O Lord, How long?" (Psalm 13:1). How long until every baby thrives and all children sleep down the hall from a mom and dad wrapped up in love, and each womb swells with vigorous life, and every single cancer clinic sits empty and we all grow old together? How long?

.....I lament: please. And He takes the empty hands and draws me close to the thrum of Love. You may suffer loss but in Me is anything ever lost, really? Isn't everything that belongs to Christ also yours?  Loved ones lost still belong to Him-then aren't they still yours?

...If you haven't lost Christ, child, nothing is ever lost. Remember,  "through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God " [Acts 14:22 NASB], and in  "sharing in [my Son's] sufferings, becoming like him in  his death" you come " to know Christ and the power of his resurrection" [Philippians 3:10NIV].