Church can be a dangerous place for a grieving parent.

In his sermon Sunday, Father Bill mentioned some miracles. He started with several taken from the Bible, including the story of Christ raising a little dead girl back to life.

Father Bill then told us of a local family. One of the boy’s in the family was getting ready for major surgery and was afraid. But he never had the surgery. When the doctors took some pre-op pictures, the mass they were intending to remove was already gone.  It had just vanished.

And he told us about a local man with some form of cancer and in bad shape. But his illness had suddenly gone into total remission.

And while listening to this, I looked over at Paula in the choir. Her husband had cancer. I remember when a bunch of us placed our hands on him a prayed for his cure. And his cancer took his life. I wondered if Paula was thinking, “Where was my husband’s miracle?”

Richard was as loved and prayed for as anyone could be. From everything I knew about him and what others told me about him, he lived a good life. He had faith. Where was his miracle?

So many questions with no answers.