WHY: It all comes down to what questions you ask
Have you ever found yourself thinking, “How could God let the happen?” “WHY?”, “What did I do to deserve this?”, Or, in a raw vulnerable moment thought “If this is God’s will....I am not sure i want to be a part of it”. Everyone eventually has an encounter that pulls back the curtain and exposes evil. Our instinctual response is WHY? Unfortunately, that question across time, generation, and all the deep thinkers of the world has never held a satisfying answer. But, being in the career I am in...and having the conversations I have...that is not OK. I can’t sit with the autricities and traumas and unseen raging wars in the hearts of the beloveds of God and be OK with, “I don’t know?” Whether this has hit close to home or not..as Boyd puts it: “To live thoughtfully with Christlike love we must allow ourselves to be disturbed by the grotesque realities surrounding us and sympathetically enter into the nightmarish suffering of others.” (Boyd, P. 57) People loo