More Than Today

I have been looking for video and picture ideas for this weekend's theme of "Why does God allow suffering?". I got out our video of "Love Comes Softly" and found a good clip from it that deals with people having trouble and yet still having faith in God. It is a good series of movies, probably wouldn't have known about it without having daughters who read those kinds of books and then found the movies. I have learned so much from them, they expose me to all kinds of things that I might have missed otherwise. There's a great quote from the "Love Comes Softly" clip I hope to use: "In all the moments of my life, God's been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's His promise that He'll be there with us when they do." There's also a neat quote from "Shadowlands," a love story between a man named C. S. Lewis (who wrote, among other books, the Chronicles of