Where is God? (part one?)
It has been a hard few months, or rather years, for almost all of us. I listen to my children talk about their lives and I listen to what friends are going through and my heart breaks for all of it. I look at my own life and I wonder where God is. I know a lot of people don't believe in God because they feel like a loving God would not allow the suffering that they see and feel all around them. I think it is easier to believe that God does not exist. If they believe, then it's hard to understand. For a person who believes, they can get discouraged when God doesn't make Himself known and felt. We can feel abandoned. That is where I am now. With everything that is going on in the world it feels like God is elusive. I can't find Him. I have felt His presence in my life so strongly at times that I know He exists. I never understand why He disappears. So many say He never disappears but that we just have so much going on, we can't see Him. We g...