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I've worked with the public for over 45 years. The nature of my chosen profession allows me to hear the personal details of every one's life. For some reason once their hair gets wet and I place that drape across them, they feel secure and hidden, as if no one can see or hear them think out loud. A few usual questions about family, job, friends and I become a counselor,which, by the way is someone who listens and says little.

I've noticed that bad even horrendous things happen to everyone. Some experienced tragedy, like lose of children, parents or husbands due to war, murder, car accidents or disease. Others are victims, like in child abuse or domestic violence. One woman told of how her husband put her in the hospital and to this day suffers from brain damage. Even stories of homeless living reach my ears.

These troubles and tragedies disturb me. Often I've ask God why. What good does it do to allow this stuff to happen. You can stop this type of suffering. Why let it happen at all. Have you ever asked this question?

Then I listen to Joyce Meyers and see her life. She was molested by her father every day during child hood. She admits it left her angry and hurt long after Christ came into her life and well into adulthood. The horrendous things human being do to each other have a miserable effect on lives, innocent lives and it leaves a mark for a life time.... Why God? Well Joyce Meyers has a beautiful answer to her abuse. You must read her book sometime.

The answer Joyce Meyers gives helps; but each of us must go to God and listen to the answer for our own lives. You see, I know everyone who reads this has a issue with abuse, tragedy and troubles. No one escapes life. Why, If God is sovereign, does He allow this. Let me give you the answer He gave for my life.

It came in the form of a picture. Draw a gingerbread man. Draw a heart and place in the heart the name Jesus. Above his head write God's Love. Now from opposite directions above the head and under the words God's Love lead two lines into the gingerbread man down through the heart, down to the feet back up through the heart and out the arms into the world. Look at the picture a moment. This is God's answer to not only horrendous happenings. It is His answer to life.

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20

Whether we come to this conclusion because of the bad things that happen to us or not. The answer to life with Christ is still the same and this answer will heal us everywhere we hurt.

Ask the necessary questions. Ask Him into your life. Ask Him to heal you. Ask Him to live his life through you. Ask Him to change what needs to be changed. Ask Him. Ephesians 3:20.