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i am not an evangelist.
as i was sharing with my beautiful friends
Denver and Cheri
this evening,
my recent life has made me question
WHAT i am.
so i am not looking to convert anyone to my thoughts.
i do observe weirdness with some strange joy.
here's one that happened the other day:
a friend and i have light-hearted debate about faith.
he has said in past years that
he can't believe in a God Who lets children starve.
as a fat member of one of the fattest populations on earth,
i tend to think there is a distribution problem
more than "not enough."
i live in North America's breadbasket.
the west is drying out.
the east is washing out to sea.
our little glacier valley isn't flooding.
we have crops.
it is not God's fault
that we turn our food into fuel
and use five pounds of grain humans could eat
to produce one pound of beef.
(some estimates are as low as a couple of pounds
or as high as twenty pounds of grain per beef pound.
higher numbers are measuring only meat.
cows are a lot more than meat.)
so anyway, his measure of the "uncaring God"
has never held much sway with me.
it is quite a leap from "children starve"
to "there is no God."
i actually pray for starving kids.
then recently my friend had a crisis.
the nature of the crisis is mute.
his immediate response was
"what was God thinking?"
after mopping up the coffee that spurted out of my mouth,
i asked, "you mean the God Who doesn't exist?"
is there anything more human?
after every national crisis,
there are folks who blame the government.
"they should have known."
yeah? how?
if it was that knowable,
why didn't you fix it before the crisis?
"God should have stepped in to heal them."
yeah.
thunder is Him kicking Himself.
shoulda woulda coulda.
i tend to believe that God has empathy
about the loss of children.
my faith has similar stories.
if our country could pick a good time for faith
this would be it.
we have no more stopped terrorism in the Middle East
than we have cured the common cold.
our country is not very popular.
it is hard to have faith in a God you resent.
how come people disbelieve because of starving kids,
and don't believe again because six-billion people have survived?
life usually wins.
love usually wins.
God always wins.
i make no apology.
in God i trust.
and because of love,
i give my country to Him. |
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