When Silence Breaks Your Heart
"How long, Lord, must I call for help but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you do not save?" Habakkuk 1:3 We've all been there. Prayers that bounce off the wall. No answers when we cry out day after day, week after week, month after month. We question the goodness of a God who seems silent when we, desperate for answers and solutions, beg Him with tears, moans, and sometimes anger. Why????? Often, when we look back, months and sometimes years later, we see what The Plan was. Sometimes we don't. But when we are actually going through the experience of petitioning our God for our needs and we feel unheard and unloved, it's not easy. If you are familiar with Lysa Terkeurst, she's faced a number of battles recently when she has cried out to God for answers. She experienced a marriage crisis and breast cancer within the last two years. But in her new book, "It's Not Supposed to Be This Way", Ly