“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
Proverbs 17:17 NIV
Many of us were raised with the idea of God as a stern authority figure, the grayhaired old man who gave us the ten commandments and all of the other rules of the Old Testament. But that is only one side of God’s nature, although admittedly an important part of God’s nature for a time in human history (a…