DARKNESS, QUESTIONS, POETRY

I could really relate to a lot of the questions that this essay is addressing. In my baby days of Christianity before I understood the theology of Suffering I would always pose myself and my peers that very question. Why does it say that God is everywhere but when there is calamity and tragedy it seems that either God is not there or how can he allow so much darkness and despair happen to those the bible says he so called loves so dearly? I really wrestled with that question a lot in my high school years of Christianity, but as I began to become more mature in Christ and study the scripture more diligently I seen that even evil and darkness in the world are done by God for an ultimate purpose and plan. It lamest terms even evil has a purpose in Gods eyes. I think the poem got a little deep when the different scenarios and questions came up in the essay about how instead of trying to quickly responding dark areas in society and circumstances with quick religious cliché we should just face our darkness and not allow it to defeat us but to rise up under to darkness and stand on the light of Christ. One point that the essay pointed out that I agreed on was that if we don’t deal with our past pains how can we have a testimony that might help save someone that is facing the same pain you once was going through. I think that if we would just wipe our tears and dance while we are in our storms and not run away we would get stronger and am more efficient and better equipped to handle other obstacles that may seem greater than the one that first consumed us.