Today I attended a students' work exhibition at my children's school. One of the work books my daughter showed to me was her religious education activity book. As a student of a Catholic school, religious education is part of the curriculum that my daughter learns.
On page one of her work book, my daughter wrote these words. "God, why do you allow tsunamis to happen and kill so many people?".
I was quite curious as to why my daughter asked this question. So I asked. She said her religious education teacher talked about God's love for us. However, there are times when we do not know why certain things happen that appear to show otherwise. Still, we must not lose faith, and we can remember these situations when God's love appear to be missing us so when we meet Him face to face one day, we can ask Him such questions.
I get a lot of mixed feelings from my daughter's response. However, what strikes me the most are two feelings. The first is to persevere in faith in the face of adversity. The second is to confront what we do not know head on, instead of hiding behind untenable explanations to support our own interpretations of the situations.
Such as this one, tsunamis victims have to die because they live in sins. What a load of rubbish.
I would rather accept that I don't know my God, than to act as His interpreter.
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