It never rains in Chico in the summer. Except last Saturday when it rained very briefly. I was at a backyard bbq when fat drops plopped in the dust. We were talking about the floods in Iowa, the fires and drought in California when it happened. Someone said Mother Nature's pissed. I said, She's a Republican. Just look at the unequal distribution of resources.
The day I took the above photo, more than 1000 wildfires were sparked by dry lightning storms. One week later these fires are still burning. I am near the center of the thickest smoke seen in the photo below. The red squares indicate the biggest fires. I have monk-friends who live in the Shasta-Trinity wilderness. Their beloved monastery is in danger and they have evacuated, taking ancient icons and encased slivers of Saint's bones with them.
At night I pray to the same God who left a toddler locked in an apartment with his dead mother for seven days. I pray mercy, mercy, light. Something unseen prevents me from going too deep into the why of it all. Otherwise I would grab God by the throat and say, Today, you will be judged by the condemned. As it is, I lie low in patches of grace.
The day I took the above photo, more than 1000 wildfires were sparked by dry lightning storms. One week later these fires are still burning. I am near the center of the thickest smoke seen in the photo below. The red squares indicate the biggest fires. I have monk-friends who live in the Shasta-Trinity wilderness. Their beloved monastery is in danger and they have evacuated, taking ancient icons and encased slivers of Saint's bones with them.
At night I pray to the same God who left a toddler locked in an apartment with his dead mother for seven days. I pray mercy, mercy, light. Something unseen prevents me from going too deep into the why of it all. Otherwise I would grab God by the throat and say, Today, you will be judged by the condemned. As it is, I lie low in patches of grace.
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Unacceptable in my book. God's ways are not our ways Damn straight.
My only hope in this case is that the father of that child was an absentee asshole and is repenting heavily and vowing to step up and change. Otherwise, I see no point in idly sitting back while a child cries for seven days, trying to wake up his dead mother.
I can accept the fires. The needless suffering of a child, not so much.
It sounds like you have a problem with faith. Indeed, this os not God's problem but yours. Seek Him.
Quit arguing with the One who knows more than you do and ask Him for assistance. Don't direct your senseless anger at me.
Rather than showing sympathy towards someone who is feeling pain over injustices in the world, you've taken up a soapbox. This does not provide comfort, but rather intensifies pain and isolation. It's an "I told you so" at an inappropriate moment. It is possible to reconcile personal faith with social concern without becoming self-righteous.
On top of that, I used to be frustrated at God for a certain aspect of salvation. I asked Him to help me understand. It took years, but at the right time, He did reveal the truth to me and I saw that I was at fault and I had a totally warped view of Him in the first place (that was when I came to Orthodoxy).
Anyway, I hope this comment helps explain where I was coming from.
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
(joke written by Emo Philips)
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