How do you seek comfort in your god? i have been given hardships at all times by him.
even from the moment i was born i have been shunned, i have survived things only explainable as acts of god.
i cannot even feel pain anymore! too much for too long stopped my brain from noticing!
i did not breathe when i was born!
i had big chunk of my chest torn out when sharp rock fell onto me at age of seven!
i suffered heart attack at twelve!
one morning when i was fifteen i woke up and my leg was paralyzed!
i only survive because my town had very good doctor, my parents are good friends with him!
do you take solace in a wrathful god? do you ignore blatant attacks on people like me!?
-@godd-damned
First, I should say—
I'm no priest like my son. My answers are my own, not necessarily the church's.
I don't know why God allows suffering. As long as there have been people of faith, there have been those who have asked this question.
What I do know is that no life is free from suffering. Over the years, God has taken from me, too—my squad. My family. My hope. Most recently, the person I loved (although they have been returned to me, it does not negate the pain of the death they suffered, nor my own loss, though those circumstances are too complex for me to discuss here). In this pain, I have often found the words of Christ on my lips—my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
He does not answer—but he has also preserved my life. He has brought me joy out of the pain. He has led me, by way of this pain, to be a light and a guide for others in ways I could not have if I had not suffered. His ways are not my ways, and his path is not the path I would choose necessarily—but I walk it nonetheless. That, to me, is what it means to have faith.
