Pray for her Please!

My friend Laura, who is probally the most Godly, WONDERFUL woman I have EVER met in my entire life.. who is the most loving, caring, devoted person I have ever met.... had a horrible thing happen to her... she was married just 2 weeks ago. She had a son from a previous marraige and married a man who had a daughter from a previous marriage... just a few short days ago, as she was in Memphis, TN picking up her son, ready to come home, she gets a call on her cell phone... her house is burning down, her husband made it out okay, and the daughter as well.... This is all thats left of the home....And through all this just 2 days later (yesterday) she had this to say on a message board for Military Wives... Which she used to come to often and post... but since has been engaged and now married to a wonderful Christian man. When you read this you might get chills so be prepared, but this is the kind of woman that she is... when it happened.. alot of girls wondered "why do bad things happen to good people" and this is what her response was..............My heart is so overwhelmed with blessing of love and prayers...I imagine that yesterday was 'doable' because of y'all standing in the gap for my family. Where to start.....Ill do my best...but I want to answer the question of why bad things happen to good people first. Because I do my best to live a Godly faithfilled life (although if ANYONE saw me on Interstate 40 driving to get to my family yesterday that WASNT ME! )...I realize that this walk of faith will take me through beautiful vistas, wonderous meadows but also the valley of the 'shadow' of death. Gods word PROMISES many things that are so incredibly wonderful that I revel in their glory...but it ALSO promises trial..and some trials by fire. Though the fire part is NOT saying that fire is to BE a part of the trial, it means that some stuff in this life is not going to be easy to take. To that end, I have been promising you al alongl that you would always share in my blessings but also get to see inside a life of 'trial by fire.' So whyDO bad things happen to good people? Folks NOT one sole on this earth is so good that we cannot have a terrible tragedy such as the ones we deal with daily on these boards. All of us, each of us daily have a need or request that matters deeply and personally to ourselves or family. Yes, we have fun booby smashing, loving times....but that is because we are forged together by the firey trials of life. The Word of God says that Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God...that means we are ALL in the same category(in other words by Gods standard I AINT SO GREAT w/out Jesus Christ to redeem me)...also, the Word says that God is no respector of persons....that means that just cause I try to serve you doesnt mean that he will excuse me from a trial that might be the same you would go through....or make me lower or higher than anyone of you here. In addition to be a sinner that was saved through the redemptive Blood of Jesus, and not be excused from trial just because of it, I have an advesary as a result of my aliance to Jesus. That is the devil. Think of it, just the night before the fire I put out there on these very boards for the world wide web to view, what I see as the true problem over in Iraq...not only did I name my advesary, but I taught you about arming yourselves against him. Do you think that wasnt going to hack him off? HECK NO! It really hacked him off!!! Now remember, God has all the power of the universe and more under His belt...could He have stopped that fire....sure could have...but then why??? Cause I read my Bible?? Cause I teach His Word??? Heck..that would make Christianity a club that if you pay your dues then you wouldnt have to deal with hardships. NOpe...God is no respector of persons and he saw that we COULD rise above the ashes and share His redemptive love even more because we LIVE in it. Now for the fire that happened....there is nothing...when I say nothing it is not merely a term..I mean NOTHING left. The house has a few external walls and NOTHING left to show for the lives that lived there. It truly looks as if we had completely moved out and then the house burned. So when you pray I ask you pray mostly for my 14 year old step daughter who lost her mother (not to death...long story) when she was one years old....she lost the poetry she wrote to purge her soul of pain, she lost her childhood memories, she lost TRUST that home was the safe place to the word around her. We CAN replace a couch or underware..but my husband lost ALL of his military career memoriablia...that breaks my heart...he lost guns that have been in his family for generations....they lost a lifetime of lifes souveniors...I hate that.....but we WILL rise again..you see, our Lord took death on a cross and He rose...and that was what He taught us....it might have been Friday on the cross and all was bleak...but Sundays coming! Blessings to you all and thank you cannot be spoken enough for your loving kindnesses to myself, Bob and Amanda (my son Timothy was with me in Memphis)...I will post pictures as we get them...for some odd reason I think that will help me. I love you is small to say, but I mean it, Bob, Laura and AmandaPlease pray for her and her family, I have yet to talk to her, but my friend Glenda talks to her on a daily basis... Glenda is the one who took the pictures and I am hoping Glenda and I can take Laura to dinner soon or something, Glenda informed me today that all this has finally hit Laura and I don't know the extent of how much.. but she's hurting.. bad.