Trusting God’s Protection When Family Faces Hardship

The author begins with a prayer she had long offered for her oldest son: that Type 1 Diabetes, which runs in the family, would pass him by. A month before writing, she learned that his pancreas was not working as it should. She describes wrestling with the question of why God’s idea of protection still includes pain, and she says she believes God welcomes such hard questions. She compares this to a parent who delights when grown children call for help, and she suggests that bringing questions to God is itself an act of trust.

She also writes that prayer is a protection for the soul, and she asks whether believers pray as fervently for their family members’ spirits as they do for their bodies. Recalling a prayer she wrote before her son was born, she describes asking for a life that is not effortless, so that he might come to know God through doubt, anger, and brokenness. Looking back, she sees that she had been asking God to guard her son’s soul above all else. She says she can rest in the knowledge that God is at work in her son’s situation, replacing her grief with grace and his earthly loss with a heavenly purpose.

The post closes with a prayer for family protection: for healing from disease and pain, for minds guarded from lies and trauma, and for souls secured in God, with the hope that loved ones across generations will know God’s salvation, faithfulness, and miracles. It asks for trust when God’s protection does not match what people consider safe, along with brave hearts, open hands, and bold expectation.

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