It's amazing to me how simple this quote is and yet it is so hard for us to understand this when we are in the darkest hours of our lives. We look for God in the midst of the chaos and pain, and yet He seems to be to far a way. Why is that? A friend once told me to not look for God in the midst of the trial, but to try and step back and find Him in the aftermath. At the time I thought that my friend was asking me to solve some complex riddle or something, but afterward I realized what he meant. God is not the author of confusion or of chaos; therefore if you try to seek Him there you wont find Him. He is in the clam after the storm. Sometimes the storms last a really long time. The pain doesn't immediately subside and the loss that we feel will be there forever. But if we look beyond the darkness, we will see the light, and that is God. He is the light at the end of the tunnel. Tunnels can be long but eventually they will end. However, while we are in the tunnel it is the grace of God that we must rely on because God Himself isn't there. His spirit is in us, but too often we let grief over shadow it, and therefore we must trust in the grace of God to carry us through the storm. HE is there just not in the way we look for him, or expect Him to be there.
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