In these last two years of Covid-19, the walls came tumbling down on what had formerly been a pretty placid family life for Emily Gumper. As most of us have experienced, crises usually come in bundles. And this was true also for Emily. “What parent would give their child a stone when bread is requested?” she asks.
Well, piles of rocks mounted higher as she religiously “asked, sought, and knocked” persistently on God’s prayer doors. In her honesty, Emily makes no excuses for God’s apparent failure to rectify, to sort, to heal all the maladies impacting her family.
Listen to Emily reflect on the thin thread of trust and what transpired when hope was not hers to claim. (All along these eight days, we have been connected to human stories. Please do not miss this day to get closer to the heart of God by way of a human one.)