Why? (One Word Prayers)

It has been a difficult two years, pandemic, social unrest, geopolitical crisis. As these things continue to pop up we can be tempted to wonder, “when will things get back to normal?” we can follow up with another tough question; God, why? In seasons of great uncertainty, it’s really hard to get to peace, and a lack of peace sends you searching for reasoning. Uncertainty or anxiety can become a downward spiral because you don’t want to feel that way, and you start to feel like there’s something wrong with you and then you worry about that, and quickly peace that was just in your grasp seems like a distant memory from a person you used to be. Look pandemic and geopolitical crisis aside, it can be any inciting incident that makes anxieties rise. We all just went through a season where collectively our “normal” was crushed, and we are coming slowly into a new normal, but every day there is the chance that our lives will be flipped upside down. In those times, after the phone call, the meeting, the diagnosis, the accident we can find ourselves going to God with what is a fair question, “Why?” This Sunday, our one-word prayer is exactly that question we’ve uttered hundreds of times before, and we will look at what God is up to in the midst of our most chaotic seasons.