So. You prayed, and she died anyway.

Today my extended Southern Baptist family mourns the death of a 76-year-old cousin I may have met once but don’t remember. For a month, the prayer chains have rattled across my Facebook feed faster than I could delete and hide. God can work a miracle! God heeds prayer! I’m praying! We’re all praying! Prayers going up! Prayers! Prayers!

And, she died. Because God wanted to bring her home. God saw that she’d suffered enough. She is reunited with her loved ones. She is happy at the right hand of the Lord.

But if she had recovered, it would have been proof that prayer works.

How did so many people become such idiots?

A year later, still so powerful. I Cant Keep Quiet.