You have an amazing testimony @nextgen622! Thank you for providing a link for me to find and read it!

”At this time my mum made a brave and radical decision, a decision to bring me to Australia. I’m forever thankful for the incredible sacrifices my mum had to make in bringing me to a foreign country and raising me on her own.”

While I unfortunately have some experience being a child from a broken home (my parents also divorced …), I really can’t fully appreciate and understand what this must have been like for you and your mother (any more than I can understand what it must have been like to grow up under the One Child policy of China …). And yet, while she did this for you and surely had some idea about what was in store for your family, our Lord had your eternal destiny in His hands.

”Growing up, I hated anything to do with religion. I thought to myself, if God existed, why did he make me the way that I am. But in 2003, my best friend, Jason, started going to church and invited me to go with him. There I found what my heart had been longing for all along.”

Is there a more difficult question than “why bad things happen to good people?” I believe His word tells us the answer, but outside of the Holy Spirit bringing it to life in us, how are we to understand it? In His Sovereignty, it appears He brought you to Australia to find the answer. Through the blessing of your best friend, Jason! All praise and glory to Him and Him alone!

P.S. I will be reading more of your story through your Memoir posts …