God if you're there where are you?

[Mom2MrBaby]

Okay seeing that I'm pregnant again the lack of sleeping is starting early this time around. I can't get comfortable and what not so sitting in bed flipping through the millions of channels looking for something half way decent to watch that I haven't seen a million times I come across one of those odd channels showing a family with a little boy in a hospital and then I hear Alan Alda narrating that Ben has cancer and his father was a firefighter in NY around the time of the World Trade Center attacks and how he helped people........turns out this was an advertisment for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital. I continued to watch it to the end and cried through the whole thing.

Ben was getting chemo therapy to treat his cancer and once his treatment was done the hospital staff through a going away party for him and he was so happy. Well 6 months later Ben lost his fight with cancer and he was just a baby. How can there be a God up in Heaven if this happening to babies, children......they are born helpless as it is why put them through all that pain and suffering. Things happen for a reason I understand that but why the children they have no idea whats going on with their little bodies.

My heart goes out to anyone that has a child that is seriously ill or to anyone that lost a child to a serious illness like cancer.  The children are our future and if God keeps taking them for these reasons what future do we have? I'm not a church going person but I beleive but after seeing that last night it really makes me wonder..............................how can there be a God!

[Gracemommy]

Jan. 3, 2008 at 4:49 PM It is hard to understand how such a good God allows such terrible things.  Ultimately though, with sin comes pain and death; be it an unborn child or an old person who has spent their years.  We can not see how God sees and we can not know the mind and plan of God.  I lost 6 babies before God gave me a glimpse into the deeper reasons.  I could not imagine going through that kind of pain and I hope to never have to, but should that ever come my way, I hope that I can and will remember that God is God and I am only a speck in all of eternity.  Right now, I am trying to cope with a "loss" of my own.  I will not go in to it here, but ultimately there is a plan that I can not see; I just have to keep trusting God and remember that He will work all things to His glory and for our good.  That child is not in pain anymore.  Though his parents will miss him forever, God is grieving with them and wants to comfort them.  They have to allow Him though.  That child is serving an eternal purpose; his time here though short was for a reason too.  Many things we will not see clearly of until our earthly eyes are gone.  I am sorry that you are having this struggle.  I know it is hard to accept.  There are parts of scripture that I have a hard time reading and not getting bitter and angry about.  Pray and seek God to reveal to you; not His plan necessarily but His glory.  He will show us what we need to see when it is needed.  Greater is he that believes without seeing than he that believes because he has seen (paraphrased from the New Test).