I had this question asked of me on Saturday night after a Friday night of the electricity being knocked off because of the ice. Pretty easy answer, right?

I was going to start with something real good like, “because.” Not going to work! Or, “it just happens sometimes.” Oh really, David? Sometimes it just gets the perfect temperature, not a degree too hot, or a degree too cold, and 2 inches of ice just “sometimes happens!” I know the real question was, “is the electricity going to go out again,” but it surfaced in a pretty “deep” way of “why did God make the ice storm?” After much convincing that mommy and daddy would be in the next room if he needed us, many trips down the hall saying “I’m scared,” and borrowing daddy’s new rechargeable flashlight, Taylor finally got to sleep on Saturday night. But it got me to thinking. . . “why did God cause this ice storm to happen.”

I have been thinking about it for quite a few days now. I don’t have a real good answer, except a few that I gave Taylor on Saturday night in my feeble attempt to wrap my brain around the events of the last week. Read more