It's strange how quickly things can change. How one second everything is fine, and the next your whole world is turned up-side-down. You wish it never happened, you ask why, you think a million 'if only' and 'what if'. But it did happen. And everything is different.

At the end of this last summer, my friend was in a car accident. She didn't make it. They were on their way back from a wedding. They were happy. A moment later we had lost her.

A few weeks ago, just before Christmas, there was another car accident. This time it was one of my boyfriend's friends' who didn't make it. Again, everything changed in just one moment.

She was 20, he was 19. Both of them living for the Lord, both of them excited about what the future had in store for them.

Both of them now with our God in heaven.

In just one moment it's like everything falls around you, like the ground beneath you disappears. And you fall to. You just don't know what to do. I felt it this summer, and I saw it in my boyfriend this Christmas.

Everything changes.

Or at least I thought everything changed. I realized after a while that I was wrong; God did not change. The way I saw Him changed, but not who He was. He was the same the second after the accident as He was the second before. He was still as loving, He was still as good, as powerful and as worthy as He was before.

Things will always change around us. We will loose things, we will loose people. It's not easy, it's not fair; but it will happen. Everything will one day fall around us.

Only God will stand. Only He will be the same. Only He can carry us.

And it's through the hard times we realize that.

There's a line in a song that describes this.

"Though my world will fall, You'll never let me go."

I love that line.

It's my only hope.