God is Good...Even Here
- Kimberly Gegner
- Nov 23, 2025
- 2 min read
Loving grown children is different than loving babies.
Babies cling.
Young adults drift—
sometimes into wisdom,
sometimes into foolishness,
sometimes straight into walls you saw coming a mile away.
Some days motherhood feels like heartbreak in slow motion.
You can’t fix it.
You can’t control it.
You can only love them, pray for them, and watch decisions unfold like storms you begged God to calm.
And this week…
that’s where I’ve been.
Phone calls that twist my stomach.
Decisions I can’t understand.
Attitudes I can’t influence.
Silences that feel like miles.
A heaviness I can’t quite name.
But in the middle of my tears, God whispered:
“Your heaviness isn’t failure.
It’s love.
It’s hope.
It’s evidence that I am carrying you.”
Psalm 100—
“For the Lord is good…”
didn’t match how I felt at first.
My emotions were loud.
My fear for my children was louder.
But God reminded me:
• His goodness is not fragile.
• His goodness is not canceled by bad decisions or bad weeks.
• His goodness is not measured by how my children act.
• His goodness is what keeps me standing when they act.
“Enter His gates with thanksgiving…”
Not because life is easy—
but because thanksgiving is how I breathe again.
How I quiet the spiral.
How I remember who God has been… even when my heart is hurting.
God is still good—
not because everything is right in my family,
but because He never left us in the places that went wrong.
He holds my children when they’re too grown to listen.
He reaches them when my words can’t.
He guards them when they’re not paying attention.
He comforts me while I watch them learn the hard way.
He is good because He stays.
Even in the heaviness.
Even in the tension.
Even in the unanswered prayers.
He is good… even here.
So this Thanksgiving, I choose gratitude—
not a performance,
not a pretend peace,
but a mother’s quiet, stubborn, holy defiance:
“I will bless the Lord at all times…
because even in the storm,
He is still good.”
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