amandaheller - My Wrestling Match With God

My Wrestling Match With God

"God, are you there?" This is a question I have been pleading to the Lord in the last few days, months, and seemingly years. Most...

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"God, are you there?"

This is a question I have been pleading to the Lord in the last few days, months, and seemingly years. Most days, I am certain he is. Other days, I'm not sure where he is. The interesting thing about being away from home is that you realize no matter how far you might be, you never truly leave it.

Home seems far at the moment, especially with what the state of the world is in as news keeps flooding in of war, refugees and the fight for freedom. I know if I was home I would be playing political ping pong with my friends and family; confident that we have better answers for justice and the strategies of international war chess games than the current leader of the free world. (BIG politics family, pray for my squadmates as my American blood runs hot and strong and they have to hear about it.)

The Lord is omnipresent, yet seemingly no where near the places that need him the most at this moment. Between the atrocities in Afghanistan, the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, the rise of human trafficking across the globe, and the everlasting fight for morality in our own backyard- it all makes me wonder what the Lord is doing.

The recent years have made me