When Life Tumbles In

I read this quote and it meant so much to me - I know what he's talking about! I must believe! This world is a battleground, not a playground. 

“I do not understand this life of ours. But still less can I comprehend how people in trouble and loss and bereavement can fling away peevishly from the Christian faith. In God’s name, fling to what? Have we not lost enough without losing that too? You people in the sunshine may not believe in faith, but we in the shadow must believe it." 

So many people’s religion is a fair-weather affair,” as he put it. “A little rain, and it runs and crumbles; a touch of strain, and it snaps.” But if we turn from faith in the time of trouble, what shall we turn to? Have we not lost enough without losing that too?

~ Arthur J. Gossip (sermon "When Life Tumbles In," preached the day after his wife collapsed and died unexpectedly in 1927. He faced this loss with tremendous courage.)