God Hears Her 40-Day Devotional Journal

For months, I’ve been making the two-hour-drive each week to help care for my mother in a nursing home. Sometimes it’s just for the day, but other times I stay a few days to help relieve my sister who lives near her and goes to the facility twice a day to make sure my mom is cared for and fed. During my visits, I feed Mom and update her on all that’s been happening in my life. I share a few pictures of recent family events from my cell phone. And I read to her from her favorite Bible passages. Sometimes she talks, often she doesn’t.

Suppose doubt is not indicative of a lack of faith but of loosely holding our convictions and being willing to change our current position when given new evidence. My friend Carl, a pastor, posted the following in a recent Facebook post: “I’d much rather be around people who are honest about their doubts than to be surrounded by people who are absolutely certain that all of their beliefs are true.”