For thirty-four years my wife kept a little wooden box by the side door of our church. People dropped their questions in it, folded small, no names. About demons. About angels. About what happens the night somebody dies. I have answered a hundred of them, straight from the King James Bible.
Hattie kept it on the little table by the side door. An old cigar box, dark wood, a lid that never sat quite right. She never asked anybody to sign a card. She just read every one, and on Wednesday nights she would slide a few across the table to me and say, "Answer this one, Amos."
Some questions I answered well. Some I stepped around, because they were hard, or sad, or because I was afraid of getting them wrong in front of the whole church.
Hattie went home to the Lord in 2020. When I finally opened that box, it was still full. Hundreds of cards nobody had answered. I sat at the kitchen table with them for a long time. Then I started writing.
You have carried one question for years, and you never had the nerve to ask it at church.
Your house feels heavy some nights, and you don't know whether to pray, worry, or let it go.
You buried somebody you love, and now you lie awake wondering where they are and whether they can see you.
You are the one in the family everybody calls when somebody is sick or dying, and you want the right words.
Your grandchildren ask you hard things about God, and you want to answer them from the Book.
You have heard two preachers say two opposite things, and you want to see for yourself what's written.
Every answer in this book starts with the verse, printed in full, King James. Pick a question and see where the answer begins.
These are the questions that came to the box more than any others. Tap a part to see every question in it.
The question, read the way it was written, and the person behind it.
The King James passages that answer it, printed in full and walked through slowly.
What to do this week. What to read. What to say to the one who's hurting.
A short prayer in plain words, for you or for the person you're praying over.
One line of references, so you can open your own Bible and see it for yourself.
This is how the book reads. Plain talk, the verse first, and honest about what Scripture says and what it doesn't. I would rather give you less comfort than false comfort.
Set in large print, so your eyes don't have to work for it.
The card read, "Pastor, my mama died three years ago. Sometimes when something good happens, I look up and say, 'Mama, I wish you could see this.' Can she see me from heaven? Did she see my grandson graduate? Does she know we are all right?"
Hattie had written in pencil, "Do not put Mama at the window. Put her with the Lord."
That is where I would begin. When somebody you love dies, you keep wanting to share things with them. A birth. A graduation. A wedding. A new house. A hard day. You think, "Mama would have laughed at this." Love keeps reaching for a person who is no longer in the room. That ache is real.
I do not want to take away comfort. I also do not want to promise something God did not promise.
I have pastored one church for fifty-one years. Weddings, funerals, hospital rooms at three in the morning. And I learned that the questions people carry the longest are the ones they never say out loud. Is something in my house. Did I lose my child's soul. Will I know my wife in heaven. Did I sin when I signed the cremation papers.
Too many pulpits step around those questions. I did it myself for years, and Hattie called me on it more than once.
So this book goes straight at them. I put the verse first, every time, so you are never taking my word over the Lord's. Where good Christians disagree, I tell you so, and I tell you where I stand. Where the Bible is quiet, I don't make it talk.
If you have a question you never had the nerve to ask your own pastor, I believe it's in here. And if it isn't, I pray this book gives you the courage to go ask him.
Nobody asks what happens to the soul on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. They ask when it's already happening. And somebody always turns to you.
You wake with your heart pounding and something feels wrong. You want to know what the Bible says to do, right then, in that room.
Your brother isn't saved and there isn't much time. Everybody looks at you. You want to know what to say, and how to say it.
Whether she can see us. Whether we'll know her again. You want to give that child the truth from the Book, and give it gently.
Have the answer on your shelf before the night you need it.
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"The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them."
Hattie died with that box still full. I'm seventy-six years old, and I'm not leaving it full again. Whatever question you've been carrying, open the book tonight and look for it. Then check every verse in your own Bible.
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