Dear BIC and SIC,
It is very sad to hear, my thought and prayer for Patrick's family.
During these years, I learned a lot from his posts on PB so I will definitely miss him.
I happened to receive his final message dated 4 March 2019, I received this message from every update that he posted on Go Fund Me under Keep My Life Afloat.
https://www.gofundme.com/AskMrRelig...m_campaign=p_email+1137-update-supporters-v5b
Update 67
Posted by
Patrick Reilly
21 days ago
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9).
How wonderful is our Lord and how mysterious to our finite minds. For over fifty years I have studied the Word of God and the works of the saints discussing the being and attributes of God (theology proper).
One would think that a half a century of devotion and dedication to learning about God that I would have a fair idea of who He **is**. Blessedly, I do not, for if I did then I would, in my arrogance, now be able to place God in the Dock and ask Him to give an account of Himself based upon all that **I** think and reason about His actions and providences.
Imagine the manifest arrogance that would ask God with the question in an accusative manner, "What have you done?" Rather we all just shut our mouths rather than deign to ask such a question.
In fifty years of study, prayer, and contemplation, I am confident that I have only scratched the surface of what it means to "know" who God is. I rest satisfied that only an approximation of the reality of God is possible, that I will never get answers to all that I want to know about **why** God does what He does. I rejoice that I know God is good and all that He does is good.
Indeed, God has been good to me; this I affirm unwaveringly. I may not like how the goodness of God is manifested in my life, but I must accept it and redirect my cross-examinations to my own walk of faith. I often do not like what I see from this introspection, revealing my own defects and deficiencies.
Please pray for me, my dear wife, and my wonderful son. Pray that we are drawn nearer to God, especially as I deal with the goodness laid at my feet by Him, no matter how God's actions remain inexplicable to our feeble minds.
