Post 21

When people wander around in the darkness of life everything usually comes into perspective. I feel that these dark or troubling times, are the very moments where we begin to shape who we are in the good ones. But you cannot learn how to live life in the good times, if you haven't first learned from the bad. I believe life requires us to choose our person hood, by the experiences it throws at us. The way we respond to these situations creates our character. The Bible says in Romans, that in our suffering, we produce endurance, character, hope and finally love. The thread that is unseen, yet holds all these elements together is faith. Faith asks you to trust in and hope for, “One can never understand what hope is really about unless one wrestles with despair”. In Prof. Corrigans essay, he quotes this from Cornel West, I think this statement sums up faith. Faith is something that is driven out from the heart, its a hope to believe that something outside of your self will save you. The only way to experience faith is when your given an opportunity to suffer. When people ask where is God ion the hard times, God is challenging, or in one sense inspiring His children to have faith. Sufferings spark the opportune moment to have and act up[on faith. And these times where we either fall or have faith is when we grow and learn the most about ourselves and life. Our questions always become more important than the answers in this time. When we ask questions like where is our God, it gives us the perfect time to explore what exactly were asking. Why and what can I learn just from going through this, maybe just pondering on that thought is the reason somethings happens. Maybe just wondering or thinking about things, are the reasons God chooses to let these troubles come. Maybe answers aren't always needed, or maybe there is multiple answers to one question. Either way God knows what He's doing, it's just our time to have faith in the question.