Questions like:
How could a loving God
Let my child die of cancer?
How can I trust God to take care of me
When He let me be raped?
If God truly controls the universe
Why does he allow the Hurricane Katrinas
And Haitian earthquakes and Christmas tsunamis
To destroy so many people's lives?
I have no answers.
I have only more questions.
How can a loving God
Let civil war reign for thirty years in Columbia,
Until a whole generation has grown
Knowing only drugs and guns and forced soldiership
Since they were children themselves?
How can a just God
Allow millions of women and children each year
To be sold as sex slaves?
And how, how
Am I supposed to believe that
God is love, and He is
"Not wanting anyone to perish,
But everyone to come to repentance"[1]
When He commanded genocide
--Even among His 'chosen people'--
With the words, "Purge the evil from Israel.”[2]
And some days, I feel faithless
Because I just do not understand
The hows and the whys
And I am left without knowledge or strength
Bereft, for my hope fails me
And all I have left
Are the questions.
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