For with God, nothing shall be impossible.
- Luke 1:37 KJV
I love this promise that Gabriel spoke to Mary in the wake of giving her the wild and wonderful news that she would carry the Son of God, but if nothing is impossible for God, my heart immediately wants to cry out, “Then why can’t all the broken things be healed all at once? Can You deliver the addicts, heal the all the sick, give babies to all the mothers on an infertility journey, lift the fog of depression over so many, and wake the dead who have gone far too soon?” If nothing is impossible for God, why doesn’t God always move in the way I want him to?
I don’t have the answers to this, but when I put myself in the perspective of a child, I’m able to accept both the questions (kids have SO MANY!) AND the wonder at the bigness and goodness and mystery of God.