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My whole understanding it to that point was that, you know, if you just love Jesus

and have enough faith, everything's supposed to just fall in place, you know?

It's like cupcakes, rainbows, pixie does.

You know, everything's supposed to just be perfect.

So, you know, here we are, you know, young married,

you know, young in our faith, we're serving in our church, eager and zealous for the Lord,

and we have a son born early with big time medical issues who has challenges.

Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Ann Wilson.

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLife Today.com.

This is Family Life today.

Okay, I've got an Ann Wilson exclusive question. I hate these.

I want to hear your answer to actually,

I'm going to throw you on the spot.

It's a pretty heavy topic. Okay. All right. Top one reason you think people walk away from their faith. Oh. If they have faith and then they just like, I don't think I can keep believing anymore. How could a good God allow this pain or tragedy in my life and in the world? How did you know what I was going to ask that? I think that's what everybody. That was too quick of an answer. She knew. I think everybody wonders that. And the people on the street that I'll talk to that they have no belief or maybe they've turned away, it's tragedy. And they're like, I just don't know how God could allow that. How could a good God allow bad things that happen to good people? Yeah. I mean, that is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, hurdle for not just other people, us as well. I mean, that's a real, and there aren't any easy answer. So we've asked a pastor to come in. Eric Reed is with us today on Family Life Today, and you've never

been here, so welcome to Family Life Today. Yeah, thank you guys for having me. This is exciting.

I mean, obviously as a pastor, you've dealt with that issue, but we're going to find out today

as a husband and a dad as well. You pastor church in Lebanon, Tennessee. That's right. And married with two kids.

That's right. Well, take us back to December 1st, 2019. I don't know if you want to go there,

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