Well I’ve been quiet but stuff has been happening. I have pink eye and I feel like my CMV is trying to come back. I finished a book in less than 365 days. I started another one. We are de-cluttering our house and getting repairs made.

In the mean time, the questions of the universe still plague me. I recently heard a sermon on the account of Peter denying Christ just before the crucifixion. Here we have all the characters present (God, Satan, and man) in a recorded event of God allowing evil to occur. Jesus revealed His foreknowledge of Peter’s “decision” when the devil was allowed to “sift” Peter. Jesus then goes on to say that He has prayed that the result of the sifting wouldn’t break Peter’s faith.

What an interesting thought. Jesus didn’t pray that Peter wouldn’t deny Him or that God would keep Peter from the sifting all together but that Peter’s faith would remain after the predicted incident. We all say, “I wish I could know the future.” Here Peter did. He even had three chances to catch himself and “change the outcome” but still everything happened just as Jesus/God said.

So how did it end? Even though he denied Christ three times just as predicted, Peter’s self-reliant courage was shattered into a million pieces while his faith remained unbroken - and so our refining continues.