Like everyone I have watched with near disbelief as the images of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami have flashed across the TV screen. The scale of the destruction and loss of life is mind numbing. The continued threat to life and health, alarming. At the same time Comic Relief has highlighted the unnecessary suffering of people in Africa and across the world in a way that can't help but move us. It seems so injust, so unfair.
Why? Why do these things happen?
About 20 years ago I read Harold Kushner's book "When Bad things Happen to Good People". It's a book that changed my thinking and still challenges me today whenever I am faced with suffering in my own life or in the world. It reminds me that whatever happens, God is right here in the middle of it.
I don't have an answer to why these things happen but I do have a response.
"Why?" is not the right question. The real question is "How?" - How will I, how will you respond now that it has?
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