tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659340471325526168.post3608341133386915462..comments2023-08-20T04:08:21.471-04:00Comments on Awakenings and Reflections: I Don't Understand ThisJaimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11551934375166879796noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659340471325526168.post-28013678433442255682012-12-15T21:41:13.779-05:002012-12-15T21:41:13.779-05:00I needed to read this post today. Your prayer is m...I needed to read this post today. Your prayer is mine as well.Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16272293468239097754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659340471325526168.post-90605240045699496082012-12-15T21:34:14.477-05:002012-12-15T21:34:14.477-05:00I think you are asking why there is evil in the wo...I think you are asking why there is evil in the world. Why Columbine? Aschwitz? Slavery? The human heart is capable of great evil. God gives us free will, and we choose life, or death. Every choice we make takes us in one direction, or the other. God does not will that ANYONE suffers, but He will not take away our free choice. So, we must take care of one another, help the mentally ill, the lost, angry, etc. And when we make poor choices, God is there to bind up the wounds and assure us He loves us and he alone can heal. <br /> Marianne (Mare) Baker Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03663143060069193124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7659340471325526168.post-67889474952555194882012-12-14T23:25:25.135-05:002012-12-14T23:25:25.135-05:00I have felt so angry and hurt today about the chil...I have felt so angry and hurt today about the children and their parents that it is hard to write anything coherent, but I am glad to have read what you wrote. I have also read several times your post from September and will read it again. You are a young woman and I am an old woman and yet we feel the same about so much. I too am trying to more clearly identify my core values because in the years I have left I want my energy to go towards them. I have known for several decades that my spiritual gift was faith. Today doesn't change that but I feel weakened and deeply disturbed. <br /><br />We also had to have our dear 15 year old dachshund put down this afternoon and somehow it hurts even more having been on the same day as this great tragedy. All I know for sure is that God does suffer with the parents who are going through this.Dewenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07330797553600987145noreply@blogger.com