Sunday, January 24, 2010

Anybody There? Hello?


Once again I am troubled by a major loss of life in an instant - 150,000 dead in the Haiti rubble - and that I, in myself, had no way of knowing that that was happening. I remember similar aftershocks to my faith after the southeast Asia Tsunami that killed 200,000. How can that many souls perish at once, and there not be a detectable 'disturbance in the force' as Obi-Wan Kenobi would put it. How can there be an Interconnectedness of All Things, and then a tragedy like this happen, and us not know it? Thinking this way, I find myself refusing to accept an indifferent, untramsmitting Universe. And what about God? Let's say that there is not an Interconnectedness of All Things (a major step down for me). Are we not still connected somehow through God? If I can't know through the Universe, wouldn't God let me know that 150,000 souls perished in a single instant? God is curiously silent to me on this point. I am left with this unsatisfying conversation with God: "God - I WANT TO KNOW when something like this happens." And God says: "It is good that you want to know. It's the first step."

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