One uneventful night, my family was sitting around the dinner table. My middle son, Caleb, put his fork down, looked at me with quizzical eyes and said, “Mama. Why did God give me nipples? I know there has to be a reason!” Caleb has an engineering mindset and has to know how and why everything works. I didn’t know whether to put on my prim and proper hat and lecture him on rude talk or fall out laughing like the rest of my family was doing. When the milk came out of my oldest son’s nose, my question was answered and I was choosing to laugh! JB, who was 10 at the time, answered Caleb’s question in the true medical reason. Caleb (now frustrated) replies, “I’m not going to be feeding any babies! Why did God give ME nipples? I know there has to be a reason!” My boys pondered this for a while. JB finally came up with a solution. “Caleb, I think it’s so that we can be attractive on the beach.” Caleb who thought that girls were the nastiest creatures God put on the face of the planet said, “That’s not it. I believe it’s so we can count by two’s.”

I don’t know why Caleb thinks of these things or from where that thought even came! I did realize that Caleb already had a firm foundation in the Lord. Did you hear what he said? He had a question about why God did something, but at age seven he already knew that God had a reason for it. I don’t know why God does some of the things He does. I don’t know why God allows some of the things He allows. He has a reason for it. A prayer that I seem to be praying more and more is, “I don’t understand, but I trust You.”

I don’t understand why children get fatal diseases. I don’t understand why God allows His people to be in tragedies. I don’t understand why one of the greatest father’s that I knew got Lou Gerhig’s Disease. I don’t know why we are allowed to struggle and hurt. I do know that God has a plan and a purpose for whatever we are going through. I know that He can take evil plans and use them for good. I don’t understand, but I trust Him.  And so does Caleb — PRAISE THE LORD!