{"id":61170,"date":"2009-06-05T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=61170"},"modified":"2023-06-05T20:16:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T01:16:26","slug":"with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"With God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Kelsey Harris\nI like to be by myself, but I can&#8217;t stand being alone.<br \/>\nI love the dark, but I hate not being able to see.<br \/>\nI enjoy meeting new people, but I hate being with strangers.<br \/>\nI want my voice to be heard, but I despise talking loud.<br \/>\nI want to be in a hall of fame, but I don&#8217;t like being the center of attention.\nI want to have my most complicated problems solved, but I don&#8217;t want complicated answers.<br \/>\nI want to always be healthy, but not have to take medicine. The answer is&#8230;God!<br \/>\nWith God, I can be away from the world, by myself, but not alone, for He is with me.\nWith God, I can be in the dark, be blind, but see more than people of this world can see.<br \/>\nWith God, I can meet new people, but they won&#8217;t be strangers, because they are children of God, like me.<br \/>\nWith God, my voice can be heard even when I whisper.\nWith God, I can enter His hall of fame, but not deal with the pressure of earthly fame.<br \/>\nWith God, I can have even my most complicated problems solved with a simple answer.<br \/>\nWith God, I can have an incurable disease, yet be healthy in what matters most.\nWithout God, I will be with the world, and be totally alone.<br \/>\nWithout God, I will walk around with my eyes wide open, but not see as much as the Christian blind man sees.<br \/>\nWithout God, I will meet all the people in the world, but they will always be strangers.\nWithout God, I will have to raise my voice as loud as I can to be heard, but still not be heard when it matters most.<br \/>\nWithout God, I will work extremely hard to get into a worldly hall of fame, but not get into the highest one.<br \/>\nWithout God, my most complicated problems can&#8217;t be solved, and the attempts will be so complicated that I won&#8217;t understand them.\nWithout God, I will have to take pill after pill, but will always be incurably sick.<br \/>\nWith God, I can achieve anything.<br \/>\nWithout God, I achieve nothing.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s your choice?\n<blockquote><p>Kelsey Harris is the fifteen-year-old daughter of brother and sister Simon Harris of Jonesboro, AR. At the time of this writing, Kelsey was undergoing treatment at St. Jude Hospital in Memphis, TN, for a malignant brain tumor. This young lady of great courage and faith sees what some of us are missing.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey departed this life April, 2009, at the age of 16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kelsey Harris I like to be by myself, but I can&#8217;t stand being alone. I love the dark, but I hate not being able to see. I enjoy meeting new people, but I hate being with strangers. I want my voice to be heard, but I despise talking loud. I want to be in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[90,182],"class_list":["post-61170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-god","tag-suffering"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88334,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/in-the-dark-or-the-glorious-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":61170,"position":0},"title":"In the Dark or the Glorious Light?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton Jesus describes the real situation of men and men's relationship to God and truth by comparing Himself to light that has come into the world, and that men are condemned and in the dark. 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