When God doesn't answer the prayers like you had hoped.

Daddy and Me

Hello everyone so if you don't follow me on other social media and you may not have known that on January 30, my dad passed away and it was just four months after my brother passed away. And during that time before he passed away, I was praying to God that God would heal his body and give him back his strength and everything like that cause my dad has been having health issues for the last few years. He's had gout for it seems like as long as I can't remember at sometime, and I was just praying that God was going to make away, and God was going to restore back his years and things like that. But unfortunately, that's not what happened in my eyes at that moment my dad passed away and what I had to realize was that God may have not answered my prayers, but he answered my dads to backtrack a little. My dad was tired and he told me, especially after my brother passed we would have conversations and he would tell me how much he miss my brother, and he would also say that he was tired and he was asking why God didn't take him versus my brother and I will give him encouragement and I will tell him because it wasn't his time and he would ask me. What should he do when I say you should live your life you know that's what big man that's my brother's nickname that's what he would want you to do, but he was say "I'm tired Bubble" (that is my nickname). And I would say "I know." but the truth of the matter is, I didn't know. I didn't know what it was like to be in my dad shoes for my dad to be in pain for all those years and things like that. I didn't know what it was like to be in his body, and I had to come to the realization that God did not heal my dad on this side of life, but he gave him peace and he gave him what he wanted. My dad was tired, and even if God would have healed his body, his soul was tired so the encouragement that I give to you is that same thing. I know it is hard to miss people and you want people to be on this earth but if God has taught me anything from losing my brother and my dad in the matter of four months is that is not about us and I know that is a hard pill to swallow but what I realize was that I did not know what my brother or my dad was going through and I did not know what the prayers that they were praying to God for it wasn't until after their death to God revealed a lot of things to me, and the things that God revealed to me is the reasons why I would not ask God to bring them back I will be at peace that they are at peace if that makes sense and so that is the encouragement that I give to you. We don't know what other people are going through and it's not selfish to want them here, but also realize that you don't know the full story of what they were going through. You don't know what it's like to live in their shoes so try to find peace if you can to know that they are at peace. I love you all.