WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN LORD

What do you do when you still believe in God, but you no longer know what to do with His silence?

For sixty-three years, one woman has prayed.

She prayed when she was a child. She prayed when she buried her mother. She prayed when war took her brother. She prayed when she lost her daughter. She prayed while the wicked prospered. She prayed when anger gave way to exhaustion. And through it all, she kept asking one question:

Where You Been Lord

This is not a book about easy answers.

It is not a book that tells hurting people to pray harder, trust more, or accept that everything happens for a reason.

It is a story about what happens when faith survives the answers that never came.

Through grief, lament, accusation, silence, and a lifetime of unanswered questions, one woman keeps talking to God even when she is no longer sure what the conversation means.

And slowly, another possibility begins to emerge.

What if silence does not mean absence?

What if God’s presence in suffering is not an explanation for suffering?

What if the deepest answer is not, “Here is why it happened,” but, “You were not alone when it did”?

WHERE YOU BEEN LORD is theological literary fiction for anyone who has ever prayed and heard nothing back, anyone who has ever been angry with God and felt guilty for it, anyone who has kept believing while wondering whether God had gone quiet.

This is a book for tired believers.

For wounded believers.

For people who have not walked away from God, but no longer know how to talk to Him.

And for anyone who has ever wondered whether the God they thought was absent may have been sitting beside them in the dark all along.